Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered how a specific type of cell in the inner ear plays a commanding role in ...

A type of flatworms, called planarians, can regenerate whole organisms from pieces as small as one-279th of their body. 1 Depending on how these goofy-looking worms were cut, they could even come back ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Stem cells possess the unique abilities of self-renewal and differentiation into various cell types, making them highly ...