Scientists have perfected the recipe to convert giant panda skin cells into stem cells to study the animal’s biology and aid ...

Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

A new study employs a multiomic approach to study how cytomegalovirus activation impacts breast milk bioactive factors and ...

F rom fruit flies that survive a mere two weeks to the giant tortoises of the tropics that can live for nearly 200 years, ...

Cells send electrical impulses throughout the body, but electrophysiologists struggled to tune into these signals until the ...

Caroline Gargett identified adult stem cells in the endometrium. Now, she explores their functions to improve women’s health.

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

ABOVE: Protein misfolding plays an important role in many neurodegenerative disorders. © istock.com, Eoneren. W hen Julie ...

Shelby is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD from West Virginia University in immunology and microbiology and completed an AAAS Mass Media fellowship.

Two studies tapped into the brain circuitry that allows fruit flies to navigate, offering clues to key principles that may ...

In the middle of the 20th century, science disciplines collided and set the stage for a technology that changed cell research ...