Cellular reprogramming is an intrinsic evolutionary trait to constantly promote adaptations that confer survival advantage. It is also more frequent during development when organs are being formed and ...

A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

A research team led by the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has constructed ...

In a study of the immune systems of mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have found a new role for a protein, ...

A team led by Prof. Wuran Wei from West China Hospital of Sichuan University and Dr. Dechao Feng from the Division of Surgery ...

Organoids are made to model human organs and are promising for research and therapy, but there are limitations in their growth and function. A recent study found that placenta-derived IL1 under ...

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the portion of the cell responsible for manufacturing and folding proteins. Proteins are ...

Drugs harnessing the power of white blood cells in the immune system can be used to treat certain cancers and autoimmune ...

New research identifies the liver protein PTPRD as a key regulator of metabolic liver disease. Reduced levels of PTPRD disrupt glucose and lipid metabolism, promote liver fat accumulation, and impair ...

The Wingless (Wg) signaling pathway is known to be responsible for ... The research demonstrates that the activation of Wingless triggers cellular reorganization that allows contraction of the ...