Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or ...

A small number of cancer cells with the ability to change their identities and behaviors appear to be a key driver of cancer progression and its ability to evolve resistance to treatment, Memorial ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair. Instead of choosing between seeing big structures or tiny particles, researchers ...

When a pathogen like a dangerous virus invades the human body, it usually has to enter human cells to cause an illness. Influenza has to latch onto a receptor on the surface of a human cell so it can ...

The image shows a metaphase spindle in a human ovarian cancer cell, surrounded by interphase cells. Microtubules are color-coded according to imaging depth, and chromosomes are shown in gray. Most ...

Cells are the basic unit of life and come in many different sizes and shapes. In animals, cell size is exquisitely matched to cell function: the smallest cells (such as red blood cells and sperm) shed ...

Prof. Dr. Elif Nur Fırat Karalar from Koç University's Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and her team have uncovered the molecular mechanisms responsible for regulating a structure that ...