A team of researchers led by Professor Yoko Hamazaki and Assistant Professor Yann Pretemer (Department of Life Science ...

Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human cell has a cell membrane that is filled with a jelly-like fluid called the cytoplasm.

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

Two of these human proteins, called CD46 and CD55, prevent complement proteins from latching onto the amoeba’s surface. In essence, the amoebae are killing human cells and then donning their protein ...

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have become the first in the world to successfully grow fully functioning human ...

Lab grown models of embryos, made from clusters of stem cells, are getting increasingly complex. Ethicists, regulators and legal specialists are scrambling to keep up with the pace of research.