An innovative gene-editing strategy could establish a new way for the body to manufacture therapeutic proteins—including ...

Ageing reversal may be closer than we think – scientists have begun human trials to test anti-ageing methods.

A mature cell of one type can be turned into a mature cell of another type without the cell having to pass through an earlier stage of development. This is called direct reprogramming, a reliable but ...

Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs), relics from ancient viral infections, form a significant part of vertebrate genomes, including humans, where they constitute ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered that a group of cells located in the skin and other areas of the body, called neural crest stem cells, are the source of ...

A Survival God for the Age of Abundance,” Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler explore what it means to be human in a world ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American NEW YORK—Despite a cloud of regulatory ...

Aside from reprogramming and transdifferentiation, the longer-existing approach to generating neurons and NSCs has been differentiating them from pluripotent cells, initially from embryonic stem cells ...

Market · GlobeNewswire Inc. The induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) market is experiencing robust growth, with a projected ...