In a new study, Mass General Brigham researchers explore the causes of immune aging, a barrier to successful cancer ...

Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have identified a previously underappreciated role for tiny ...

Pancreatic β-cells, residing within the islets of Langerhans, are the sole physiological source of insulin, the hormone that lowers blood glucose by promoting cellular uptake and metabolic storage. In ...

Decoding the cardiac cellular universe: primary cell resources for dissecting heart microenvironment-driven disease ...

NANJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have recently developed a novel cardiac cell therapy that helps repair damaged myocardium and improve heart function in patients with severe heart ...

In a tale of identities as divergent as "The Prince and the Pauper," a well-known cancer-causing gene also influences cells ...

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 ...

Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center have identified an important role played by tiny structures inside ...

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 ...

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...

While humans can regularly replace certain cells, like those in our blood and gut, we cannot naturally regrow most other parts of the body. For example, when the tiny sensory hair cells in our inner ...