Hematopoiesis is a process which generates the cells that are found in the blood. It's long been thought that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that are found in bone marrow give rise to all blood cells ...

Water flow plays a surprising role in the formation of new blood vessels as zebrafish develop, RIKEN researchers have discovered. This finding advances our understanding of how blood vessels ...

Investigators led by Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D., the David W. Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and ...

Different microenvironments give rise to oxygen-carrying red blood cells versus infection-fighting white blood cells, and so on. Unexpected variations in stress responses.

While each cell contains the complete genetic blueprint of an organism, chemical marks on the DNA – so-called epigenetic modifications – control which genes are active when and where.

Arabidopsis thaliana - a model organism for plant genetics. Image Credit: Tomas Vynikal/Shutterstock.com The role of genetics In developmental cell biology, the phrase “pattern formation” is ...

Their findings, published in Developmental Cell, shed light on how a protein called CDK5RAP2 activates the microtubule nucleator γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC), a key component of this skeleton ...

Study: Transient cell-in-cell formation underlies tumor relapse and resistance to immunotherapy. Image Credit: CI Photos/Shutterstock Background Despite some remarkable success stories, cancer ...

A somewhat mysterious soft tissue found in the fetus during early development in the womb plays a pivotal role in the formation of mature beta cells the sole source of the body’s insulin. This ...