A cut in the womb can vanish almost without a trace. The same injury a few days after birth leaves behind a scar.

Researchers at La Trobe University have built a sensor that mimics the protective surface of gut cells and, in lab tests, ...

Researchers at Texas A&M Health have identified a molecular mechanism that increases cholesterol levels inside prostate ...

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

Scientists have discovered a defensive method of cells that resembles Spiderman shooting his web to ensnare enemies. These ...

Errors in chromosome segregation cause more than 80% of early human embryos to contain cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes, a phenomenon called aneuploidy. While aneuploid cells are normally ...

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars? A new study by Harvard stem cell biologists published March 20 in ...