Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

Natural killer cells, or NK cells, are elements of the immune system capable of rapidly locating and destroying cancerous or ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

These observations have prompted interest in examining whether regenerative medicine approaches could potentially influence some of these underlying processes. Why Stem Cells Are Being Studied in ...

The UPV/EHU researcher Ildefonso Martínez de la Fuente has led an exhaustive analysis of the locomotion trajectories of 700 individual cells using advanced scientific techniques to demonstrate that ...

Scientists have found how human cells distribute and maintain their cholesterol levels, aiding in research in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, as well as cardiovascular diseases ...

The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...