During pregnancy, the placenta must dig into the uterine wall deeply enough to tap into the mother’s blood supply and nourish ...

A new map of the "maternal-fetal interface" reveals a new type of cell, as well as the types of cells most likely to be ...

By laying the genetic risk signals over their new cell atlas, the team found the answers. They discovered that preeclampsia ...

Researchers at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute have demonstrated that combining data from different origins ...

A study published in Cell Research advances a central idea in stem cell biology by identifying a checkpoint that controls the ...

Cell therapy is an advanced biomedical approach that utilizes living cells as therapeutic agents to treat disease or repair tissue. 4 Scientists isolate cells from a patient or a healthy donor and ...

To gain better insight into what's happening in the brain, researchers examine the molecules produced by brain cells, ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition in which the body attacks its own insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Some ...

Researchers found that genetic variants linked to type 1 diabetes risk are also active in certain brain cells. The most important signal appeared in microglia, which are the brain’s resident immune ...