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 ...

A Stanford-led paper in Nature Neuroscience showed that forebrain/midbrain progenitors and hindbrain progenitors arise in parallel very early in embryonic development. But the claim that the brain is ...

For decades, the prevailing model held that a single kind of progenitor, or precursor, cell gave rise to the entire brain.