New research reveals that cells outside the brain can store and process memories, challenging the view that memory is limited ...

Researchers found that neural crest stem cells are uniquely capable of reprogramming, challenging current reprogramming ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

Three people with severely impaired vision who received stem-cell transplants have experienced substantial improvements in ...

They joined The Scientist's Creative Services team as an assistant science editor in 2022 ... and his team found minor transcriptional changes when they compared the cells remaining after distal ...

Widely used as a genome editing tool, the CRISPR-Cas9 system allows researchers to precisely induce frameshift mutations in specific genes or insert foreign nucleic acid sequences into a cell’s DNA.

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have made a major discovery in how human ...

Jason Dinh, climate editor for Atmos, joins guest host Sophie Bushswick to talk about the debate, and other stories from the week in science, including an archeological find of medieval-era Silk ...

Embryo development starts when a single egg cell is fertilized and starts dividing ... including scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has provided new insights ...

A mixed reality program developed by a team of Filipino engineers may just become the next big thing in educational ...

The findings appear in Science. Cells of the immune system use "checkpoints" or signals that tell them how to react to diseased cells or pathogens. Tumors can hijack these checkpoints to turn the ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...