As nearly one in six couples experience fertility issues, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly common form of ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

Researchers have characterized a specialized type of immune cell, which plays a key role in protecting and repairing the cells in the healthy human gut. Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, ...

Crypt-base-columnar cells are continuously dividing intestinal stem cells that generate IECs, which are composed by distinct specialised cell types that play different functions: Enterocytes (in the ...

Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including division, to create more cells; fate determination, which is a commitment to a specific lineage or ...

New research provides evidence that the "protocells" that formed around 3.8 billion years ago, before bacteria and single-celled organisms, could have had specialized bubble-like compartments that ...

Eva Gillis-Buck has recieved funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute James Gardner receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and ...