Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

How do stem cells know what to become? Nearly three decades after scientists isolated the first human embryonic stem cells, researchers are still working hard to understand precisely how a single, ...

A mission to search for the origin-of-life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, will be aided by University of Otago – Ōtākou ...

When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...

New research has updated the understanding of how sugars, known as glycans, help immune cells move into the skin in the ...