For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important type of human immune cell—known as helper T cells—from stem cells in a ...

The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across ...

(ArsenalBio), a biotechnology company pioneering programmable cell therapies, today announced a strategic shift to focus the company on the development of in vivo CAR T cell therapies. The transition ...

In recent years, scientists have developed methods to measure a cell's transcriptome, or all the RNA produced by a cell, to ...

Cells in our bodies squeeze through dense tissue channels, thread past neighboring cells and navigate every nook and cranny ...

Cancer immunotherapy transforms a patient’s immune cells into a “search‑and‑destroy” force against tumors. But many cancers learn to camouflage themselves from dendritic cells—the immune system’s ...

Learn more about the cutting-edge technology that enables 3D printing inside living cells and what that means for the bioengineering of tomorrow. Developments in bioengineering keep moving the needle ...

Waves are ubiquitous in nature and technology. Whether it’s the rise and fall of ocean tides or the swinging of a clock’s pendulum, the predictable rhythms of waves create a signal that is easy to ...

Widely used as a genome editing tool, the CRISPR-Cas9 system allows researchers to precisely induce frameshift mutations in specific genes or insert foreign nucleic acid sequences into a cell’s DNA.