A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By ...

In a new study, published in Cell, the research team have overcome this problem by identifying the distinct 'electrical signatures' of different neuron types in the mouse brain, using brief pulses of ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...