Hormones coordinate different body functions by carrying messages through the bloodstream to target cells and tissues. Hormonal imbalances occur through inadequate or excess hormone synthesis, which ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," which enables researchers to better understand how human cells function and ...

Researchers at the University of Granada and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have developed a luminescent probe, called GLed ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

The new 'GLed' tool, unique in its reversibility, allows the functional state of T cells to be observed for the first time, representing a crucial advance in personalizing treatments in immunotherapy, ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...