The cells lining skin capillaries are constantly sending each other messages—tiny pulses of calcium that help regulate blood ...

Every second of every day, the human body replaces roughly two million red blood cells that have reached the end of their working lives. That relentless output, sustained around the clock inside bone ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

Researchers at Columbia University have identified a switch that turns on the rapid production of blood cells in emergency ...

Adipose tissue is far more important for our health than many may realize. It does not merely function as an energy store, but as an active tissue that continuously communicates with the rest of the ...

Extracellular vesicles from menstrual blood stem cells promoted cartilage production in human tissues, offering a potential ...

Every time a white blood cell engulfs a bacterium, a neuron extends a projection to connect with a neighboring cell, or when a cancer cell forcefully squeezes through tissue to spread, the cell must ...

In a study published in Cell Stem Cell, Deng and colleagues achieved the reprogramming of human blood cells to pluripotent stem cells using small molecules. Chemical reprogramming refers to the use of ...

Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints form unique designs, and zebras can be identified by their distinctive ...

Daniel Cressy’s groundbreaking gene therapy treatment is opening new possibilities for patients living with the inherited ...