Ten years ago, while at the university of Western Australia, anthropologist Nina Jablonski was asked to give a lecture on human skin ... were less than convincing. White skin, for example ...

“Studying early human development is really difficult. It’s basically a black box,” said Jun Wu, a stem cell biologist at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. “We believe ...

Taken together, these experiments confirm the identity and maturity of the hPSC-derived white and brown adipocytes and indicate that the cells could be used to faithfully model human disease.

To get a peek inside the cell, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a sort of “black box” for both human and bacterial cells. Much like how an aircraft’s ...