AN ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through microscopes ...

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A new type of brain cell, called a glutamatergic astrocyte, has been discovered. It could explain how a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, such as Parkinson’s, develop. Brain cells can largely ...

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Share on Pinterest Are researchers getting closer to functionally curing type 1 diabetes? Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her own ...

Much attention has been paid to Vertex’s efforts to develop a stem cell therapy for Type 1 diabetes. But flying under the radar with an allogenic (donor) gene therapy for the disorder has been Chicago ...