When a neuron ages, it loses synaptic connections with other neurons, it is less able to transmit nerve impulses, and its metabolism is also altered. This process of neuronal ageing — inevitable with ...

When a neuron ages, it loses synaptic connections with other neurons, it is less able to transmit nerve impulses, and its metabolism is also altered. This process of neuronal aging — inevitable with ...

When introduced into a cell, the Yamanaka factors rapidly strip it of the outer layer of its DNA, known as the epigenome. Our epigenome is the key to cellular reprogramming and also, frankly, life ...

Japan is spending substantial amounts of money in several projects aimed at using pluripotent stem cells in the clinic. Japanese education minister Hakubun Shimomura recently unveiled a plan to spend ...