Scientists have uncovered an unexpected function for a crucial protein involved in cell division. Reported in two consecutive ...

A microprotein called adipogenin appears to play a key role in helping fat cells store lipid droplets—a phenomenon that's ...

For the first time, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB), ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered how to reverse aging in blood-forming stem cells in mice by correcting defects in the stem cell's lysosomes.

Scientists are closing in on a surprising new way to tackle diabetes: hunting down “zombie cells” that clog blood vessels and ...

These days Sneha Mitra, PhD, spends a lot of time thinking about T cells — a type of white blood cell that helps protect the body from infection and cancer. A postdoctoral fellow at the Sloan ...

In the life science world, there has been a strong focus on next-generation sequencing and the $1,000 genome. The excitement in this nearly $30 billion life science tools industry should not be taken ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the ...

Biology is one of the most basic fields of science with direct application to humans. Our continued existence on the planet Earth will depend on how we resolve biological problems. Biology ranges in ...