A therapy for type 1 diabetes is the first to treat patients before symptoms appear, paving the way toward preventing this and other autoimmune diseases.

A metabolic pathway used for tail regrowth may be critical for tissue regeneration in some cells, a study suggests. 

Recording the pH within decaying organs for the first time, researchers come closer to understanding why some soft tissues are more likely to be preserved as fossils than others.

Unlike other fast-growing cells, regenerating tadpole cells fuel growth using the pentose phosphate pathway rather than glycolysis, a study indicates.

The “wound current” has intrigued scientists for more than a century. It could turn out to be the key to healing catastrophic injuries.

Jumping genes are let loose in cancerous cells, with multiple effects on cell health.

Noncoding RNAs and microproteins, once considered genomic noise, are turning out to be critical to the progression of some types of cancer.

Getting it wrong can harm the very creatures that scientists are trying to protect.

The University of Chicago cell biologist is studying how the nutrients available to cancers influence their growth. 

Public bathing, ubiquitous around the world and through the ages, plays an often-unappreciated role in public health.

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Transposons may be key players in how tumors develop and spread, but they also keep cancer at bay in some circumstances.

Splitting Chinook salmon into two groups based on their DNA could aid conservation efforts. But some researchers argue that this would be a misuse of the data.

Chinook make their way up the Klamath River every year, but fewer and fewer arrive in the spring.

A new microrobot uses algae to transport antibiotics into the lungs of mice with pneumonia.

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The father-and-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka crafted thousands of scientifically accurate models of plants and sea creatures as teaching aids. 

At the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the developmental biologist is probing the maternal-fetal interface across mammalian species.

The father-and-son duo, the last generations of a long line of renowned glassworkers, crafted thousands of realistic models of plants and sea creatures.