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Ovarian cells derived from stem cells restore hormones and cells needed to produce pups.

Al dente asparagus stalks may hold the key to successful neural stem cell therapy for repairing injured axons.

Scientists used CRISPR-Cas9 for the first time in a carnivorous plant to prove the role of two ion channels in closing the Venus flytrap’s trap.

Researchers inhibited molecules that regulate both tumor and immune cell migration and their crosstalk signaling to impede metastasis.

Researchers find that the sugar myo-inositol is abundant early in lactation and increases synapse size and abundance in the developing brain.

Researchers at KU Leuven specialize in performing a multiplex immunohistochemistry method that uses conventional antibodies and pathologist-driven data analysis.

Editing epitopes expressed on the surfaces of transplanted hematopoietic stem cells renders them resistant to AML treatments without affecting their critical functions.

Researchers integrate scRNA-seq, spatial transcriptomics, and histology imaging data to show that spatial cellular architecture predicts glioblastoma prognosis.

Researchers created a model that uses clinical testing data to locate the primary site of cancer cells with no known origin, likely improving survival.

Spatial methods reveal immune cell formations in fat during early obesity.

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on quantum dots, which has applications in electronics and biomedicine.

Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz received this year’s Physics award for creating tools for studying the world of electrons, with future applications in medical diagnostics.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received this year’s Physiology or Medicine award for their work on RNA biology and mRNA-based vaccines.

Pop music balanced blood sugar levels in mice, thanks to implanted human cells rigged to release insulin using a sound-sensitive bacterial protein.

Brain-like tissue grown in a dish mimics critical periods for development and reveals how it can go wrong.

In the developing zebrafish, a noisy and asynchronous activity jumpstarts the heart’s journey to coordinated beating.

Researchers studying lung cancer cell lines found that chromatin remodeling underlies one type of osimertinib resistance.

Vaginal dysbiosis has long been a taboo subject, but studying and optimizing the vaginal microbiome could be a game changer for women's health.

Researchers unravel the mystery of epithelial to mesenchymal transition in acute lymphoblastic leukemia with co-culture techniques, CRISPR-screening, and RNA sequencing.