In its most basic form, this is the idea of a stem cell. We can say that human cells arise from a process of “differentiation ...

Lab grown models of embryos, made from clusters of stem cells, are getting increasingly complex. Ethicists, regulators and ...

Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other ...

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 ...

In this study, we examined the heterogeneity of bone metastases across different cancer types and within each cancer type," said co-corresponding author Dr. Xiang H.-F. Zhang, director of the ...

A new AI tool, AAnet, has discovered five distinct cell types within tumors, offering a deeper look into cancer's inner diversity. This insight could transform how we treat cancer, enabling more ...

In a new study, published in Cell, the research team have overcome this problem by identifying the distinct 'electrical signatures' of different neuron types in the mouse brain, using brief pulses ...