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Researchers have now discovered a new way to jump-start the immune system to attack tumors, which they hope could allow immunotherapy to be used against more types of cancer.

Researchers have identified a drug that helps sensory neurons in the central nervous system heal after a spinal cord injury.

A new study published in Fertility and Sterility Science is the first to show that functional sperm cells can be made in a dish using primate embryonic stem cells.

Researchers have developed a novel biopsy method using lab-on-a-chip technology that they believe can detect cancer before a tumor is even formed.

Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients, according to a University of Queensland study.

Researchers have shown that protein analysis at the single-cell level in a tumor sample can be used to detect cancer stem cells that evade chemotherapy.

Nearly half of our DNA has been written off as junk, but research over the last decade has shown that some of this genetic "dark matter" does have a function. Biologists continue to debate, however, whether these regulatory sequences of DNA are essential. A new study has explored the function of transposons, a component of junk DNA, and shows that at least one family plays a critical role in viability in mice.

Circadian clocks regulate most physiological processes of living beings over a rhythm of about 24 hours. Scientists have shown that the activation of the immune system is modulated according to the time of day. These results suggest that the time of day should possibly be taken into account when administering vaccines or therapeutics to increase their effectiveness.

A new study shows how iPS cell technology can produce some of the most potent anti-cancer immune cells for adoptive cell therapies.

Regenerative medicine could slow the clock on degenerative diseases that often ravage the golden years, a Mayo Clinic study finds.