Cultivated meat aims to produce meat from animal cells in the laboratory without needing to raise a living animal for meat ...

Law firms that want a piece of the burgeoning stem cell research industry-which could be flush with California's potential $3 billion investment over the next decade-will have to rethink their ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment -- a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer. Cancer ...

More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset with ethical and political controversy. Andrew Cassy had spent his working ...

WASHINGTON AP - Promising medical research is in disarray as scientists await an appeal by the Obama administration of a judge's ruling that undercuts taxpayer-funded research using human embryonic ...

IT HAS been a roller-coaster year for one of the most exciting areas in biology. Can stem cells really replace tissues lost to age or disease? There have been both ground-breaking discoveries and some ...

Studying the process of brain formation illuminates just how much of development is a series of tiny miracles. Only a few weeks after a human egg is fertilized, a sheet of cells called the neural ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment—to know when to activate genes, build proteins and carry out their basic functions. One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they ...