Explore what new brain-development research could mean for laboratory disease models, and why the findings do not yet ...

The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary diseases. When the ...

A New York startup is trying to create a safe way to edit the genes of human embryos. The embryos are stored in liquid nitrogen.

Induced pluripotent stem cells open a new avenue in regenerative medicine for treating autoimmune disorders in a personalized manner and without ethical dilemmas ...

Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.

Tiny, striped zebrafish are helping scientists trace how a gene linked to albinism influences eye development, work that may ...

Study finds forebrain, hindbrain develop from separate progenitor cells along parallel pathways in early development ...

Tiny, striped zebrafish are helping scientists trace how a gene linked to albinism influences eye development, work that may ...

The human brain does not grow from one unified starting point, according to Stanford Medicine researchers who traced its ...

Stanford Scientists Find That the Human Brain Is Actually Two Separate Organs A team led by scientists at Stanford University ...

Deep inside the developing human body, an ancient cellular recycling system appears to be hard at work long before a baby ...

Buried within every human cell lies a molecular archive of ancient infections. Roughly eight percent of the human genome consists of human endogenous retroviruses, or HERVs, the fossilized remains of ...