At first glance, it might not seem like people have much in common with deer. But a strange discovery about how their antlers regenerate is lifting the lid on the unseen ways that our bodies work, too ...

The prohibition halts support for projects both inside and outside the N.I.H. President Biden had restored funding after an earlier ban by President Trump during his first term. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health is ending support for research using human fetal tissue. Agency chief Jay Bhattacharya said in a statement on Thursday that the decision was motivated both by a ...

As we age, we don’t recover from injury or illness like we did when we were young. But new research from UC San Francisco has found gene regulators that turn genes on and off that could restore the ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the cornea—can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The brain is not one ...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body's organs—can respond to death and destruction with a burst of ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed two powerful computational tools that could transform how researchers study the "conversations" between cells inside the body. The tools, called ...

Garlic propagation depends on vegetative reproduction, leading to the accumulation of multiple viruses such as garlic viruses A, B, D, E, and X. These infections cause reduced bulb size and ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

The potato periderm (skin) consists of three layers. The outermost layer is the phellem, which functions as a protective barrier. Beneath that is the phellogen, a single layer of meristematic cells ...