Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and estimated to affect 9.5 million people worldwide.

Scientists in China and the Netherlands say they have discovered how a single plant cell can regenerate into an entirely new plant by flipping two genetic switches. They said the findings could help ...

General Motors Co. is scrapping plans for a factory in Detroit as part of a broader decision to end development of hydrogen fuel cells for everyday drivers, the automaker said Friday. Salaried workers ...

Scientists at City of Hope have uncovered a gene called SMOC1 that plays a surprising role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by converting pancreatic cells that normally produce insulin into ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the proteins they encode. Traditionally, this technique has been used in microbes, ...

South Korea is set to make a significant transition toward clean energy by unveiling the world’s largest fuel cell plant in Gyeongju. The hydrogen-powered plant will generate enough clean electricity ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they ...

Parkinson's disease is associated with toxic clumps of the alpha-synuclein protein in the brain, which disrupt healthy cell communication. Now, a new study shows another way this protein may damage ...

CENTRAL SQUARE, N.Y. — A new bell-to-bell ban on cell phones in public schools is set to take effect this August, as announced by Governor Kathy Hochul. The governor stated that the ban aims to ...

Roughly two years after securing a former Novartis facility in Illinois to support its CAR-T cancer treatments Breyanzi and Abecma, Bristol Myers Squibb is rethinking its operations at the site. BMS ...