Scientists have found that preserving lymph nodes during cancer surgery could dramatically improve how patients respond to ...

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of ...

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells ...

A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being ...

When immune cells strike, precision is everything. New research reveals how natural killer and T cells orchestrate the ...

It has long been understood that groups of cells can perform complex tasks, such as navigating mazes or strategically ...

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the cell, transmitting signals, speeding up reactions and helping neighboring ...

Activating lysosome biogenesis helps alleviate cellular senescence in progeria. Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) ...

Study of Maria Branyas Morera found a youth-leaning gut, low inflammation, rare genes, and slower DNA-based aging—offering ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a ...

A team led by Neil King, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is now exploring a new ...