Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

A team of researchers at the University of Liverpool, working in collaboration with the Mechanobiology Institute at the ...

In the fight against disease, programmed cell death – also known as apoptosis – is a key protective function of the body. It ...

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, ...

Over the course of evolution, the human heart has largely lost its ability to regenerate. Our distant ancestors were not ...