Desperate family’s ‘world has crumbled’ in bid to raise £500k to save daughter’s life
Sophia Wilson from Sauchen, Aberdeenshire, is battling aggressive Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) and urgently needs a specialised treatment…
Mum left ‘completely shocked’ as menopause symptoms turn out to be leukaemia
Caroline Sweeney was fit and active when she began feeling unusually tired — weeks later she was told…
A Rogue Gene Explains Mysterious Cases of Diabetes and Epilepsy in Newborns
Credit: Wikimedia Commons When six infants around the world were diagnosed with an odd trio of symptoms (diabetes,…
New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells
University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects…
CellNavi predicts genes directing cellular transitions by learning a gene graph-enhanced cell state manifold
Input embeddings In CellNavi, we use single-cell raw count matrices as the only input. Specifically, the single-cell sequencing…
The mini placentas and ovaries revealing the basics of women’s health
Cell clusters that resemble the uterine lining grow with support cells in a synthetic hydrogel.Credit: Juan Gnecco, Linda…
UniSA scientists awarded $2.9m to investigate genetic causes of deadly childhood brain cancer – News and events
22 September 2025
11-year-old Jess Bickley lost her battle with brain cancer in September 2023, five months…
Rare ABCA7 gene variants linked to Alzheimer’s risk
A new study from MIT neuroscientists reveals how rare variants of a gene called ABCA7 may contribute to…
Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds
While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the…
Precise modulation of BRG1 levels reveals features of mSWI/SNF dosage sensitivity
BRG1 binding exhibits a linear response to its dosage In mES cells, Brg1 encodes the major catalytic subunit…
Genetic Study Suggests Ways to Catch Blood Cancer Earlier
Newswise — As we age, our cells replicate, and the DNA in these cells can acquire mistakes —…
Systematic decoding of functional enhancer connectomes and risk variants in human glioma
The study was approved by the Ethics Institutional Review Boards of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen…