T cell development is a tightly regulated process that transforms immature thymocytes into mature T cells with distinct functionalities. In the thymus, precursor cells undergo a series of selection ...

The sugar glucose, which is the main source of energy in almost every living cell, has been revealed in a Stanford Medicine study to also be a master regulator of tissue differentiation - the process ...

Biomedical researchers discovered two proteins that differentiate stem cells into the components of blood vessels. This finding has implications for drug testing and other clinical applications. Blood ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

By editing thousands of genes in mouse stem cells, the scientists identified a list of over 300 that are crucial for neural differentiation.