Cells can spontaneously change shape even without external signals, but the underlying mechanisms behind this form of self-organization have remained unclear. Now, researchers from Japan have ...

Researchers at Hebrew University use RNA trans-splicing to program cells for disease detection ...

As we get older, our bodies change in many ways. For example, muscles tend to get weaker as people age. Researchers have now ...

Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology. These models, known as synthetic or biomimetic cells, allow some of the basic ...

Scientists at City of Hope have uncovered a gene called SMOC1 that plays a surprising role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by converting pancreatic cells that normally produce insulin into ...

T cells are specialized immune cells responsible for identifying and targeting infections. When the body experiences ...

The regulatory division of the immune system is vital for its overall function. Immune T cells originate in the bone marrow and then travel to the thymus—a kind of biological police academy. 2 Here, ...

A new review argues that aging may not be just a collection of molecular defects, but a progressive drift in cell identity that links inflammation, fibrosis, mitochondrial damage, and tissue decline.

Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in adults. It starts in the white blood cells that are responsible for creating antibodies that help the body fight infections. Once the myeloma ...

The study reveals that prenatal fructose exposure directly alters neural stem cells (NSCs), the foundational master cells ...