Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

A compound best known for giving almonds and apricots their aroma may be the key to defeating hard-to-kill cancer cells. Japanese researchers found that benzaldehyde can stop the shape-shifting ...

There’s strong evidence that if we could somehow open the heterochromatin, then it would be possible to change cell fate. Thus, targeting epigenetic factors that change the accessibility of the ...

The human brain is known to store various memories for long periods of time, progressively learning from new experiences and ...

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

New insights into how tumor cells hijack brain plasticity to drive cancer. By Elizabeth Cooney Nov. 1, 2023. Reprints.

This useful study presents a biologically realistic, large-scale cortical model of the rat's non-barrel somatosensory cortex, investigating synaptic plasticity of excitatory connections under varying ...

Cancer cells don’t just shape shift. They state shift. That is, they can embody different cell states, or types, that possess different degrees of plasticity or hereditability.

A Bermudian played a key role in groundbreaking research that led to the understanding of how a devastating cancer can spread ...

A number of recent publications have added to scientists' understanding of embryonic stem cell (ESC) differentiation and adult stem cell plasticity. For example, Ron McKay and coworkers at the ...

"Cell plasticity" refers to cancer cells' ability to alter their phenotypes in response to changes in their microenvironment, such as fluctuations in treatment dosage or treatment cessation.