Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

China’s Tiangong space station has received new, unusual guests. While fruit flies are annoying in the kitchen, they can help solve some serious science mysteries while in space. The small insect, ...

Intestinal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells, which in mammals reside in the base of the crypts of the adult intestine. Intestinal stem cells continuously self-renew by dividing and ...

The CMB program has at its underpinnings didactic training in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, data analysis, scientific communications, grant writing, and ethics, along with research rotations ...

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"Adipocytes [fat cells] are known to go through a kind of identity crisis in obesity — they kind of forget who they are and what they are supposed to be doing," Hinte told Live Science.

It’s the beauty of science. Q. What are nanomachines capable of doing today? A. They are still quite primitive, and it is difficult to improve them, but after eight years of work, we have motors and ...

Researchers propose a new mathematical definition of death based on whether a potentially dead cell can return to a ... death is crucial in terms of science and also in terms of social implications." ...

Kidney cells can make memories too. At least, in a molecular sense. Neurons have historically been the cell most associated with memory. But far outside the brain, kidney cells can also store ...

In a new study of mouse cells, scientists found that both the ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, told Live Science in an email. In 2023, Raman and her colleagues found that triggering ...

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell. Now scientists have discovered how their superpowers get a remarkable boost when they ...