Researchers have uncovered how egg cells prepare for the creation of life. Their work reveals the secrets of the Balbiani ...

Researchers have discovered how egg cells prepare for life by studying the Balbiani body, a structure that organizes key ...

AT last we have the pleasure of welcoming the largest work so far written by one who is perhaps the greatest living master of experimental morphology. It has received admirable treatment by the ...

Embryonic stem cells are occupying the minds of most US senators. While it is most pleasing to see cell biology in the limelight, ES cells present the political elite in Washington with one of the ...

For example, red blood cells look very different from nerve cells, but they both start out as embryonic stem cells. Adults don't have any embryonic stem cells, but they do still have stem cells ...

Learn more about the National Academies’ various programs designed to connect, engage, and inspire. In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research ...

During the development of the olfactory epithelium (OE), olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) express only one member of the odorant receptor (OR) gene family, and O ...

Bush's decision in August 2001 to permit federal financing for research on human embryonic stem (ES) cells using established ES cell lines. Stem-cell research has enormous potential value in both ...

In a recent article, Haining et al outline several ethical and regulatory considerations for polygenic risk scores (PRSs), ...