As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artistic-exploration of ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

In addition, germ cells require a specialized environment, or niche, provided by the supporting somatic cells in which to differentiate.