Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system works. In separate ...

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - ...

DREAM complex acts as master brake on DNA repair, where higher activity steadily increases mutations and accelerates aging.

Whole new class of anti-ageing drug found to work at cell level - Findings help explain how nutrition and gut microbes ...

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to ...

Zebrafish can regenerate sensory hair cells that humans permanently lose, like those in the inner ear linked to hearing and balance. New research reveals two specific genes that control how different ...

"For the first time, scientists have shown that DNA from ordinary body cells can be placed into an egg, activated, and made ...

The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries—the organs that store and release a woman's eggs. From age 25 to 40, a woman's chance of conceiving each month decreases ...

Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we ...