Gradients of molecular signaling factors play an essential role in numerous events in embryonic development, from patterning limb and organ formation to the intricate shaping of the brain and ...

People often have strong opinions on the "right" firmness of mattresses for themselves, and, as it turns out, some cell types have similar preferences for their support structures. Now a research team ...

Morphogenetic fields organize tissue morphology and development in the embryo. Adult tissues need to solve the same problems as embryonic tissue: maintaining form even as constituent cells proliferate ...

When a vertebrate embryo develops, a group of cells self-organizes into the neural tube, eventually becoming the brain and the spinal cord. This involves specific signals, but how these signals are ...

Three-dimensional culture of stem cells in biomaterials has recently enabled the formation of complex cellular structures and miniature organoid tissues, including tissues resembling brain, spinal ...

“We were stuck in the mindset that glucose is an energy source and nothing else,” Stanford Medicine chairman of dermatology Dr. Paul Khavari said. His are the words that define the paradigm shift ...

Adult human stem cells that are intrinsic to various tissues have been described and characterized, some of them only recently. These cells are capable of maintaining, generating, and replacing ...

“Our lab uses different polymers to interact with the nervous system. We think there's a window after injury that seems to mirror development,” said Paul George, a physician scientist at Stanford ...

Glucose is life's main energy source. But a new study reveals a surprising role as a master manipulator of tissue maturation, hinting at its importance in diabetes and cancer. The sugar glucose, which ...

Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) causes cells in lung tissue to mutate and grow uncontrollably. When these cells look different than healthy cells under a microscope, doctors call this poorly ...

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 ...