A new study has found that pancreatic cancer cells are different based on their location in the pancreas, providing new information about tumors that could lead to better targeted treatments.

Inside the human eye, the retina is made up of several types of cells, including the light-sensing photoreceptors that initiate the cascade of events that lead to vision. Damage to the photoreceptors, ...

In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing with the wrong cell could mean the difference between a beating heart and one ...

The study authors use yeast cells to assemble long DNA sequences in a single step, and then deliver them into mouse embryonic stem cells. For the current study, the research team addressed the ...

A new centre for cell research is being set up at the University of Konstanz: The "Single Cell Centre" combines specialized large-scale equipment and research methods to examine individual cells in ...

The heart (cyan) forms from two distant regions of the embryo (far left). These regions migrate to the embryo midline, where they fuse into a tube to make the first heart structure (far right).