How is a normal cell transformed into a cancerous cell? The proteins involved in cell division events no longer appropriately drive progression from one cell cycle stage to the next.

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye ...

Plant tissue culture (also known as micropropagation ... sugar and hormones) in a sterilize Petri dish. After a few weeks, many of the embryos will either become contaminated, die or form callus that ...

A Waltham company pulled the plug on a Phase 3 cancer trial, while a different Waltham company continued its leadership ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

Gensaic brings expertise in an area called tissue targeting, which allows drug delivery to a specific site or group of cells in the body. It has generally been difficult to deliver medicines to ...

namely methods such as tissue-culture plates, Petri dishes, cover slips and so on. Studies in standard cell culture have produced many results to help us to interpret complex biological phenomena ...

But Jessica Esseltine, a biomedical scientist at Memorial University, is hoping to change that by using heart tissue grown in a petri dish to stop the disease before an implant is needed. "We're ...