When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

A new study from The University of Texas at Arlington has revealed how cells control their mitochondria—the "energy producers ...

Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to ...

By learning to adjust these biological “brakes” with precision, medicine is entering a new era. Treatments inspired by these ...

A study published in Nature Communications describes how lymphatic endothelial cells assist in generating robust immune memory, offering new insights into how the immune system functions. Specifically ...

The prize-winning work explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

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

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a trio of researchers whose work identified and shed light ...

Aging is the process of getting older. In biology, aging refers to how, over time, the cells in our bodies wear out or get damaged. They no longer work as well as they used to. Some visible signs of ...

A new study from The University of Texas at Arlington details a novel strategy for how the body clears out dead cells during stress, revealing unexpected roles for well-known stress-response genes-a ...