Most people will become infected with Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, at some point in their lives. In addition to being a common ...

A Northwestern and Buck Institute study of 28 women found that the ovary keeps changing for decades after menopause, with more inflammation in older tissue. Utah biologists dropped a weight on ...

A microfluidic nanoblade device that slices open the membranes of thousands of cells at once reveals that cells prioritize repairing the nuclear envelope over the plasma membrane after extreme ...

Following an injury, such as a traumatic crush injury, the peripheral nervous system is itself often able to effectively regenerate. This regeneration capacity is mainly attributable to the Schwann ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. In mouse experiments, scientists introduced ...

A 1940s experiment put a cat on a cow and popped paper bags to show that fear blocks milk letdown. The hormone link still matters for nursing parents. A Doctor Notched His Thumbnail Every Month for 35 ...

In the evolutionary history of life, the ability of a cell to separate its inner world from the external environment was an important turning point. The so-called plasma membrane lets cells control ...

An experimental dressing captures growth factors and releases them when repair cells pull on the material. Tests found smaller mouse wounds after 10 days and improved cell migration into dressings in ...

Researchers studying ageing in mice have found that a decline in chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a cellular recycling ...