Scientists create smart cells that administer automatic treatments from inside the human body, reacting within seconds to ...

UC San Francisco scientists have used a high-throughput CRISPR-based technique to rapidly map the functions of nearly 500 genes in human cells, many of them never before studied in detail. The ...

Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are a specialized subgroup of immune cells that play a central role in the human immune ...

The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has been completed and released on a new website. For the first ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk", may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression.

A new federal initiative seeks to develop stem cell treatments and other technology to repair brain tissue damaged by stroke, ...

Mapping the human heart, cell by cell Date: September 24, 2020 Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summary: Scientists have mapped and described the function of cells in six regions of the ...

Transcriptional profiling of cell division and DNA damage. We set out to identify cell-cycle–regulated transcripts in human cells on a genome-wide scale using high-density oligonucleotide arrays.

Central functions of innate immune cells discovered Date: November 2, 2022 Source: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Summary: Inflammation and increased mucus production are typical symptoms ...

Scientists have created millions of human cells in mouse embryos, in a technique which they hope could one day be used in a variety of ways, from growing organs for life-saving transplants to ...