Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
Researchers identify the signaling program that enables finger and toenail stem cells to direct digit regeneration after amputation.
Two new fossils of ancient primates shed light on the divergence of apes and Old World monkeys.
By reprogramming human fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells with somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists have come up with a viable alternative to iPSCs.
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Better health care in Gambian villages lead to flip-flopping selection pressures on height and weight.
This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.
Fossilized skeletal remains of the hominid Australopithecus sediba add to the puzzle of human evolution.
New studies of tadpole shrimp and other organisms show that the term “living fossil” is inaccurate and misleading.
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
A surgeon sues the Nobel Assembly for excluding him from last year’s prize awarded for regenerative science, but stem cell scientists are skeptical of his claims.