Physiology

In this symposium, an expert panel will discuss how cutting-edge organoid research lends insights into normal development and shows what happens when processes go awry.

Long believed to be purely vestigial, this troublesome organ may play an important role in gut and immune function.

Maternal immune responses during mice gestation led to a hyperactive population of innate-like immune cells in offspring that contributed to altered lung composition and function.

Jeff Nivala develops nanopore-based sequencing techniques to help advance proteomics. 

In this webinar, Craig Simmons and Bahram Mirani will highlight the potential of umbilical cord perivascular cells for cardiovascular tissue regeneration.

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz followed the aesthetic allure of the embryo to better understand the start of development.

Scientists seek citizens’ help to survey placental mitochondria in complicated and healthy pregnancies.

The mTORC1 signaling pathway senses nutritional information and influences craniofacial development in mice.

Fly fat tissue senses nutritional status through a stress response pathway to control reproductive activities.

In this webinar, Arthur Beyder and Melanie Maya Kaelberer will discuss how scientists use intestinal organoids, also known as mini guts, to explore the digestive system in health and disease.

Human tears are a blend of elements that lubricate and protect the human eye.

In a mouse model of Down syndrome, three copies of a gene encoding a kinase contributed to congenital heart defects.

A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus.

Biochemist Sharon Stack hopes to advance the field of ovarian cancer by exploring the tumor and host-related factors that influence its metastatic process. 

Three dimensional images of human pancreatic islet cells provide an unprecedented view of the enigmatic primary cilia.

Despite centuries of study, scientists still make new discoveries about the mechanisms of gravitropism.

What researchers once regarded as a byproduct of biology may hold the key to understanding health and disease.

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