Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study in Molecular Cell shows that a single DNA damage sensor, ATM, fully controls telomere driven cell aging and that ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can continue to develop new brain cells into old age. Researchers at Sweden’s ...

Human lungs, like all organs, begin their existence as clumps of undifferentiated stem cells. But in a matter of months, the cells get organized. They gather together, branch and bud, some forming ...

Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully developed a method to grow inner ear tissue from human stem cells- a finding that could lead to new platforms to model disease ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for good. They enter a state called replicative senescence, where growth ceases ...