Tendon injuries, though very common, frequently heal with scar tissue, which is less flexible and more prone to future injury.

Today, more people are living past 100 than ever before — even though the maximum human lifespan hasn't moved past 115 years.

Blindness itself might become, at least in certain cases, partially reversible. This potential future stems from one of the ...

Biomedical engineers use iPSCs to grow specialized retinal endothelial cells, successfully regenerating damaged eye blood ...

Plant regeneration represents a cornerstone of modern plant science, blending fundamental questions in developmental biology ...

Signal transduction and gene regulation are at the heart of cell and developmental biology, driving cell fate decisions and tissue homeostasis. In cancer, ...

With fresh focus on New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to move away from animal models in biosciences and preclinical ...

A collaborative team led by Dr. Jingnan Li and Dr. Ji Li at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, together with Associate ...

Aging, at its most fundamental level, is a molecular process. Chemical marks on the genome shift and lose fidelity over time, ...

Contributed by Myles Brown, November 6, 2019 (sent for review July 9, 2019; reviewed by Douglas Yee and Wilbert Zwart) In this study, we integrated FOXA1 cistrome, epigenetic histone marks, and ...

Every living cell reads the same genetic code — a near-universal set of instructions, conserved across billions of years of evolution, that translates DNA sequences into proteins built from the ...

A newly identified loss of cellular identity may enable colorectal cancer cells to enter a highly flexible state that ...