Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac ...

For decades, scientists have accepted that the immune system naturally weakens with age. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer and ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Every day, billions of cells in our body die and are removed as part of normal tissue maintenance. This continuous cleanup ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not understood much about how to manipulate the mechanical side of that equation. That ...

Brain-resident immune cells that have reached an old-age state called "senescence" secrete a protein that causes dysfunction in other brain cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill ...

Single-atom catalysts can function inside living cells while retaining their structure and catalytic activity, extending ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer - and how restoring ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...