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, an infant, a fetus and an embryo.

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 ...

Scientists have produced embryonic stem cells within a living adult mammal. Researchers have also discovered that these embryonic stem cells, obtained directly from the inside of the organism ...

There were also large variations between individuals—some adult humans had many neural progenitor cells, others hardly any at all. "This gives us an important piece of the puzzle in understanding how ...

Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the Facts Scientists hope the chimera embryos represent key steps toward life-saving lab-grown organs.

Scientists can now create realistic human embryo models in the lab, leading some to suggest that we rethink how we legally define an embryo.

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 ...

The immune system of laboratory mice raised in an ultra-hygienic environment resembles that ofnewborn humans, but can be induced to resemble the immune system of adult humans or 'dirty' mice by co ...

Human biology encompasses all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others.

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

The birth of new neurons in human memory circuits, in other words, declines during childhood to undetectable levels in the adult.