Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell ...

Type 1 diabetes is a disease where the immune system destroys insulin-producing beta cells in pancreatic islets. About 2 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes. The islets of Langerhans are named for ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

Large-scale human genetics studies have shown that many risk variants for common and complex diseases sit in the non-coding ...

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the composition of immune landscape is altered in the aortic wall of diverse types of AD, and opens new avenues for a rational and precise anti-AD ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Over the past decades, large-scale human genetic studies have identified numerous risk genes and variants associated with complex diseases and traits.

Dissociating tissues into single cells is a core laboratory technique and vital for widely used applications such as next-generation sequencing or flow cytometry. Scientists who employ tissue ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...