Our body controls the levels of sugar in our blood with a hormone called insulin, which is made by beta cells in the pancreas ...

Researchers at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine recently made an important advance in neurodegenerative disease ...

An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of generating a fully developed mouse using genetic tools from a unicellular ...

An international research team led by Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Osaka have found a way to resume sperm production, leading to healthy offspring in mouse models with ...

The vehicles that deliver gene editing cargo to the body’s cells can be toxic, complicating gene therapies, particularly those addressed to brain cells of developing fetuses. Less toxic carriers, ...

During development of the digestive system, a complex network of nerves forms around it, creating a "second brain" - the enteric nervous system (ENS) - which controls the movement of food and waste ...