Many types of cancer are caused by gene mutations in the signalling pathways that control cell growth, such as the hedgehog signalling pathway. A new study from the Karolinska Institutet, published in ...

A discovery with major implications for cancer treatment has been made by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), ...

Too much fat can be unhealthy: how fat cells, so-called adipocytes, develop, is crucial for the function of the fat tissue. That is why a team led by researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB ...

During human brain development, neural stem cells must balance self-renewal and differentiation to build the cerebral cortex – the brain’s outer layer responsible for cognition and perception. If this ...

Colorectal cancer often returns not because the main tumor survives, but because a small population of stem-like cancer cells ...