Being fruitful, they multiply into a ball of many cells, a shimmering sphere of human potential. Scientists have long dreamed of plucking those naive cells from a young human embryo and coaxing ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

Human cytogenetics was launched 46 years ago with the discovery that human somatic cells contain 46 chromosomes. In the ensuing years, technological advances that have combined innovations in ...

Enzo Porrello said he is working to develop stem cell treatments that can target the root cause of heart disease to ...

Called bioprinters, these machines use human cells as “ink.” A standard 3-D printer layers plastic to create car parts, for example, or trinkets, but a bioprinter layers cells to form three ...

Monkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed. The research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked fresh debate into the ethics of such experiments.