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Two decades ago, Caroline Gargett identified adult stem cells in the endometrium. Now, she explores their functions to improve women’s health.

Leveraging the versatility of stem cells allows researchers to advance science across multiple disciplines.

University of Amsterdam researchers claimed the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying polymers by racing inebriated and sober worms through a chromatography maze.

By postnatally providing a transcription factor important for brain development, researchers fixed abnormalities generated in utero in mice.

Clusters of epithelial cells migrate at different speeds depending on their layout, with single-file assemblies making the fastest journeys.

Tiny but mighty, the mitochondria continue to surprise scientists with new insights into their diverse roles within cells.

Two studies tapped into the brain circuitry that allows fruit flies to navigate, offering clues to key principles that may govern navigation in more complex brains.

Long-read sequencing uncovered hundreds of thousands of new isoforms not previously identified during development.

A professional detour veered Ludovic Desvignes into a high-maintenance career—director of a high-containment facility.

Instead of an on-off toggle switch, cancer cells adapt through a series of distinct states of increasing drug resistance.

Scientists have identified a new variant of the cell cycle that could provide insight into how diseases like cancer occur. 

Sensory neurons grow into injured tissues and modulate the immune system to promote healing.