A Distinct Human Organism Robert P. George, ... The adult that is you is the same human being who, at an earlier stage of your life, was an adolescent, and before that a child, ...

For the first time, researchers have discovered and isolated adult stem cells from a non-human primate. This finding could ...

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

Embryonic stem cells produced in living adult organisms Date: September 11, 2013 Source: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO) Summary: ...

Not only do neural progenitors persist in the adult brain, but many of these cells are in active stages of division.

A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn. The discovery has implications for wound treatment and preventing some of the aging process in skin.

A fully grown adult human is an incredibly complex system, made up of trillions of cells and somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 28 atoms: the building blocks of all matter on Earth.

In a remarkable—if likely controversial—feat, scientists announced today that they have created the first successful human-animal hybrids. The project proves that human cells can be introduced ...

Mice are among the closest relatives of primates, but diverged from human ancestors 65–75 million years ago 15.We wished to test whether the differences we observed between mice and adult humans ...

In the U.S., a 1996 amendment that bars federal funding for human embryo experiments defines a human embryo as an organism derived by fertilization, cloning, parthenogenesis — when an ...

After years of debate, scientists provided new evidence for the lifelong birth of human brain cells, which may inform future ...