Developed by Tsutomu Miyasaka in 2009, perovskite solar cells emerged as a breakthrough in photovoltaics and a promising alternative to traditional solar technologies. The world’s most advanced labs ...

Professor Sir John Burn of Newcastle University explains what are stem cells, by heading down a nuclear bunker in Northumbria. He explains how stem cells are needed to repair all parts of our adult ...

EVERY 20 minutes, someone in Britain and the north is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and for many of them, a blood stem cell transplant is their only chance of survival. Blood stem cells – dubbed 'the ...

The body is made up of approximately 37.2 trillion human cells – so you can truly appreciate how many that is, here is the number written out in full, 37,200,000,000,000 – that’s a lot of cells. These ...

By studying the movement of fibroblast cells using sophisticated imaging techniques, Dr Morgan and the team identified the role of Syndecan-4. They found that it decodes the vast array of signals ...

A new discovery could explain why obese people are more likely to develop cancer, scientists say. A type of cell the body uses to destroy cancerous tissue gets clogged by fat and stops working, the ...

Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints ...

Embryonic stem cells are cells derived from an early stage embryo (4-5 days in humans) that can renew themselves through cell division and can differentiate into all the other types of cells in the ...

Sickle Cell Disorders (SCD) are inherited chronic illnesses that affect all ethnic groups. They occur more frequently in people of African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Indian and Mediterranean descent.

Professor Sir John Burn of Newcastle University explains what are stem cells, by heading down a nuclear bunker in Northumbria. He explains how stem cells are needed to repair all parts of our adult ...