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Just two weeks after announcing the development of a mouse embryo model, complete with beating hearts and the foundations for a brain and other organs, from mouse stem cells, researchers have published new findings about another mouse embryo model reaching similar developmental stages, but created out of only mouse embryonic stem cells.

In a new study, scientists have identified a protein that plays a critical role in the damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis.

Researchers have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects to treat a rare disease that causes blindness in early childhood.

Immune cells called group 3 innate lymphoid cells play an essential role in establishing tolerance to symbiotic microbes that dwell in the human gastrointestinal tract.

In a first, scientists have captured on video all the steps a virus follows as it enters and infects a living cell in real time and in three dimensions.

Scientists suggest that lactate, a metabolic by-product produced by cells during exercise, can rejuvenate immune cells that fight cancer. This could be used to develop new strategies for anti-cancer immunotherapies.

Researchers describe a new mechanism that explains how some tardigrades can endure extreme dehydration without dying.

Research into how the blood protein vitronectin changes when under pressure – such as when it passes through the blood vessels at the back of the eye – could unlock the mechanism of macular degeneration.

DNA from fossilized whipworm eggs found in Viking feces has enabled an in-depth genetic analysis of the parasite's development and spread.

Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed an investigational therapy using support cells and a protective protein that can be delivered past the blood-brain barrier.