Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

1 Biohybrid Systems Group, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States 2 Institute of Cell and ...

Researchers have developed a method to confidently produce blood cell precursors from stem cells in mice, by activating a set of seven key genes in the laboratory. The team takes a step forward ...

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States The transition of a cell from a stem to a differentiated state involves an interrelated and ...

Every second, an adult generates around five million new blood cells to replace aging or dying ones, making the blood system a highly regenerative organ. These new blood cells are formed in the bone ...

Human autonomic neuronal cell models are emerging as tools for modeling diseases such as cardiac arrhythmias. In this systematic review, we compared 33 articles applying 14 different protocols to ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

Programmed Cell Death Protein-1 (PD-1) represents endogenous mechanisms of negative immunoregulation. While the modulation of effector functions has been the major focus of PD-1 research, quick PD-1 ...

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States Center for Stem Cell Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, ...

This school year, many of the nation's adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones. States such as Florida, Indiana ...