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This postdoctoral researcher investigates how communication between pancreatic alpha and beta cells regulates insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes.

Understanding how long-lived animals resist cancer and aging effects could provide solutions for humans to manage these conditions. 

By analyzing peat moss cell surface chemistry, researchers identified how these bogs store more carbon than all other living organisms combined.

A protective coating prolonged the survival and function of transplanted islet cells in diabetic mice, offering a novel cell therapy approach.

By stamping barcodes into the genome, researchers traced cell lineages from a single starting cell to more than 1.2 million cells in a developing mouse embryo.

This postdoctoral researcher explores how habitat loss and invasive species shape forest regeneration and seed dispersal dynamics.

Thirty years after their discovery in monkeys, mirror neurons are reshaping how scientists view human social connection and brain rehabilitation.

A new analysis suggests that Rosalind Franklin, who took the first images of DNA’s double-helix structure, knew far more about her data than her colleagues later claimed.

This postdoctoral researcher investigates the genetic and environmental factors that govern nephron endowment and kidney development.

As researchers unravel the machinery that controls gene expression, they are finding more mechanistically informed ways to intervene in disease.

Proposed changes to NIH biosafety oversight could affect researcher privacy, intellectual property, incident reporting, and the speed of institutional review.

A biotech startup leads a new effort to edit human embryos therapeutically, hoping technical advances will persuade regulators to re-evaluate embryo editing bans.