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 ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, ...

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

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 ...

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

Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of blocking it to halt progression of the disease.

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

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

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

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has successfully combined single-cell RNA sequencing ...