The researchers began by investigating the connection between fin amputation position and appendage regeneration speed. “If you cut just a tiny, little sliver at the very, very end of the tailfin, ...

While one may think that the brain, after a certain age, doesn’t function the same and that cognitive decline is inevitable, ...

A tiny fleet of gold nanorobots is teaching stem cells how to become bone. At the same time, another lab is using gentle ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- It might look like a comet or a shooting star, but this time-lapse video is actually a tiny plant root, not much thicker than a human hair, magnified hundreds of times as it grows ...

Scientists in Melbourne have discovered how tiny electrical pulses can steer stem cells as they grow, opening the door to new ...

Biologist Jan Skotheim and his team have zeroed in on a previously unknown mechanism within the cell growth cycle that controls cell size. Cells were discovered in 1676, and almost immediately ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

A team of scientists from Monash University has identified a single gene in a land plant that could help explain how plants ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.