A new method developed by scientists could soon make liver disease treatment easier and more effective—without a transplant.

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School have found a novel way to ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

Researchers have identified a rare type of brain cell whose overactivity may contribute to schizophrenia-like symptoms, such as cognitive deficits and disrupted sleep.

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

A new computational tool developed by researchers has uncovered genetic evidence directly linking Alzheimer’s disease to the ...

Trageting abnormal brain cells linked to chronic inflammation may be key to treating people with progressive forms of MS, a ...

Gene expression reveals that different types of human cell can work as a unit. These cellular modules, found in several tissues, change during disease. However, suitable computational methods are ...

Cells at the bottom of a liquid medium begin levitating, then hovering at a particular height. With no physical contact, an ...

Scientists have discovered how leukemia cells outsmart a leading treatment and may have found a way to stop them. Scientists ...