A new study has revealed how two morphogens, WNT and Sonic Hedgehog, act as molecular "traffic cops," directing early human ...

Inside every human cell, 2 meters of DNA is crammed into a nucleus that is only one-hundredth of a millimeter in diameter.To ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new ...

Following on from a remarkable study in mice, scientists have now confirmed that silencing a certain protein in muscle tissue ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

Our attraction to sugar has grown to an unhealthy level. The average person in the United States now consumes more than 100 ...

ADAM19 appears to play a significant role in reducing the inflammatory response associated with intestinal damage and ...

As much of cell structure remains uncharted ... base of scientific literature to inform functional annotation of the human cell map. “ We know each of the proteins that exist in our ...

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular "traffic cops ...

Researchers have applied object recognition technology to track changes in brain cell structure and provide new insights into how the brain responds to heroin use, withdrawal and relapse.