In 2022, a team of researchers in Melbourne placed a cluster of lab-grown human neurons onto a chip and watched them learn to ...

For most of us, pain is an unwelcome but vital warning system that tells us when something is wrong. However, for the small ...

A clinical trial for spina bifida treatment suggests that a surgical approach relying on stem cells is safe for patients. Its ...

New research has identified a protein that could serve as both a biomarker and therapeutic target to weaken stem-like cancer ...

A key molecular dynamic could be the key to fighting tumors while allowing patients to still receive life-saving cell ...

Scientists have developed a way to turn the body's own immune cells into cancer-fighting agents—without removing them from ...

Stem cell research holds enormous potential for treating disease, but it also raises deep ethical questions—especially when human embryos are involved. Recent debates have reignited calls to shift ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have successfully demonstrated that disrupting an eye structure long suspected ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers found that surviving eye cells formed extra branches that restored ...

Advances in developmental neuroscience have fundamentally reshaped thinking about neural repair. Mechanisms that govern neuronal fate specification, brain ...

The olfactory system is essential for most animals: it supports postnatal survival, detects environmental hazards and mediates emotional, social and nutritional behaviors.