Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

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For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

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For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell—known as helper T cells—from stem cells in a ...

Despite the immense amount of genetic material present in each cell, around three billion base pairs in humans, this material ...

Faced with demographic collapse in her home country, the Chinese expert is conducting experiments on stem cells and human ...

Danish researchers believe that everyone should monitor their blood folate levels. They argue that a deficiency in folic acid ...

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...

Find out which animals live the longest and what clues this gives us for potentially slowing down human aging.

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High-resolution 3D womb model gives insights into embryo implantation, infertility, and signals between embryo and mother, ...