Unlike the HeLa cell line named after her, Henrietta Lacks was little heard of until the 2010 publication of Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920 in Virginia, ...

Jonas Wood discusses the inspirations behind his work, including his family, body anxiety and an abundance of house plants.

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

Oct. 2, 2024 — Researchers have developed a solid electrolyte that could be a suitable material for all-solid-state batteries. Solid electrolyte composed of nanoparticles embedded in an ...

Pluripotent stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into the three primary germ cell layers of the early embryo and therefore into all cells of the ...

Sickle cell crisis is a health complication of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder. It usually causes severe pain, and it happens due to an acute blood cell reaction. Sometimes sickle ...

These factors lead to changes in dietary intake, physical activity levels, and ratio of lean to fat mass ... increased myocyte apoptosis (programmed cell death of the cardiac muscle cells).

An editorial cartoon lampooning the large number of people running in Halifax's mayoral election is facing criticism for using the image of a monkey to illustrate a candidate. The cartoon ...

Here’s how it works. A lot of factors go into figuring out the best cell phone plan, from coverage to perks. But at the end of the day, what really separates one plan from another is what it ...

CAR T-cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy. CAR stands for chimeric antigen receptor. You might also hear it called a type of adoptive cell transfer. CAR T-cell therapy is a very complex and ...

To do its work as a cost scorekeeper, the CBO often leans on data from federal agencies like HHS, some of which isn’t public, requiring the agency to lean on formal and informal agreements to ...