After implantation, the tissue developed blood vessels and became integrated into neuronal networks in the animals’ brains.
Transcription and translation of DNA containing synthetic base pairs becomes a reality in living cells.
Transcription and translation of DNA containing synthetic base pairs becomes a reality in living cells.
Scientists have identified a new genus of extinct horse that lived in North America during the last ice age.
The 10-micrometer-long flagellate cell might have a big story to tell about the evolution of eukaryotes.
The 44-year-old patient has Hunter syndrome, which doctors hope to treat using zinc finger nucleases.
A combination gene-and-cell therapy has given a boy with a grievous skin disease a new lease on life, and has resolved a dermatology debate to boot.
Asprosin—involved in a rare disease called neonatal progeroid syndrome—targets neurons to stimulate appetite, and blocking the hormone wards off weight gain in rodents.
The Tapanuli orangutan has been identified as the newest species of great ape, but also likely the most endangered.
Andean highlander genomes possess cardiovascular-related variants, while populations from other regions evolved different solutions to manage the lack of oxygen.
Advances in single-cell technologies have revealed vast differences between cells once thought to be in the same category, calling into question how we define cell type in the first place.
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2017 issue of The Scientist.