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The team behind the largest islet transplant program in the world has reported that the procedure is a safe, reliable and life-changing treatment for people with hard-to-control diabetes.

Researchers have explained how a CD8+ T cell can have two functionally distinct daughter cells after it divides, despite the cells being genetically identical.

Researchers discovered that the MCM complex plays an important role in restricting DNA loop formation and thus in the three-dimensional structure of the genome and in gene regulation.

T cells that attack apolipoprotein B, the main component of "bad" cholesterol, could be contributing to inflammation that worsens heart disease.

Researchers have developed a brain-permeable compound (25-106) that targets a signaling regulator in brain neurons. The team notes that when the new compound was administered to mice, it could alter their neurobehavior and reduce anxiety-like behavior.

A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) shows that the optic gland in maternal octopuses undergoes a massive shift in cholesterol metabolism, resulting in dramatic changes in the steroid hormones produced.

Investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have devised a novel therapeutic method using stem cells taken from healthy donors to treat glioblastomas post-surgery by attacking glioblastoma-specific tumor cells.

A study in C. elegans has shown that exposure to male pheromones slows down the rate of aging in female egg cells, resulting in healthier offspring.

Two new studies reveal more about the X chromosome silencing process and provide insights that could improve stem cell research.

People with neurofibromatosis type 1 have hyperexcitable neurons which leads to tumors developing. Researchers have identified that an epilepsy drug can suppress this hyperactivity and halt tumor growth.