One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

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Dr. Xavier Aldana Reyes goes one further, defining the genre as “the inscription of horror onto the human body by virtue of a change ... in an attempt to defy biology. Be warned: It gets icky, but ...

Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons. Models derived from pluripotent stem cells ...

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New research has uncovered an extraordinary mechanism of cell division in Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria living in dental plaque. The filamentous bacterium doesn't just ...

He identified the cause of a respiratory condition that once killed 10,000 infants annually in the United States and helped ...

Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human embryos to study development, fertility and therapies.