Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is tapping the Jackson Laboratory to expand testing using lab-grown cells and ...

Modern biology runs on precision, yet so much of the daily lab workflow remains stubbornly manual. Even today, one of the ...

The New York Stem Cell Foundation, a $23-million-a-year biomedical nonprofit, was acquired by the Jackson Laboratory as part of a move to expand automation in life sciences research. The acquisition, ...

Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on October 14, 2025, titled “Bridging clinical insight and ...

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.

Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...

Welcome to the Akhmanova lab, where we study how cells penetrate and migrate through tissues in vivo. By combining cutting-edge live imaging, mechano-biological techniques, and theoretical modelling, ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. In May, after the Trump administration decided ...

Our incoming mayor is a proud graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and therefore knows a worthy science project when ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...