Stem cells

An experimental cystic fibrosis drug has been shown to prevent the disease’s damage to the liver, thanks to a world-first where scientists grew mini...

A rare DNA base, previously thought to be a temporary modification, has been shown to be stable in mammalian DNA, suggesting that it plays a key role...

A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the...

Researchers have identified how proteins that play a key role in Alzheimer’s disease are linked in a pathway that controls its progression, and that...

The order in which genetic mutations are acquired determines how an individual cancer behaves, according to research from the University of Cambridge...

The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments for leukaemia and...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have managed to reconstruct the early stage of mammalian development using embryonic stem cells, showing...

Forty million people worldwide are living with Alzheimer’s and this is only set to increase. But tiny brains grown in culture could help scientists...