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Biologists identify key step in lung cancer evolution
Blocking the transition to a more aggressive state could offer a new treatment strategy.
Exploring the links between diet and cancer
Omer Yilmaz’s work on how diet influences intestinal stem cells could lead to new ways to treat or prevent gastrointestinal cancers.
In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic...
Extra chromosome alters chromosomal conformation and DNA accessibility in neural progenitor cells; study establishes senescence as...
“SCOUT” helps researchers find, quantify significant...
Unbiased, high-throughput analysis pipeline improves utility of “minibrains” for understanding development and diseases such as Zika...
Study finds path for addressing Alzheimer’s blood-brain...
MIT researchers pinpoint mechanism and demonstrate that drugs could help.
Study links certain metabolites to stem cell function...
Molecules called ketone bodies may improve stem cells’ ability to regenerate new intestinal tissue.
Charting a path to better cell models of the intestine
Researchers generate an intestinal cell mimic that can be harnessed in studies of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Helping blood cells regenerate after radiation therapy
Method boosts differentiation of stem cells into mature blood cell types, may help leukemia and lymphoma patients.
In pursuit of the elusive stem cell
New MIT initiative delves into the biology of stem cells and cancer stem cells, seeks ways to identify, purify, and propagate them.
A blueprint for regeneration
Whitehead Institute researchers uncover framework for how stem cells determine where to form replacement structures.
Drug treatment could combat hearing loss
Researchers discover a drug combination that can regenerate hair cells in the inner ear.