Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

A squishy worm that starts its life as something of a floating head in the Pacific Ocean is changing what scientists know ...

Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in a new study employing a lab model for myocardial infarction, the medical term for ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not understood much about how to manipulate the mechanical side of that equation. That ...

Immune cells can become exhausted after prolonged exposure to cancer, gradually losing their ability to attack tumor cells.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer - and how restoring ...

Blocking a tumor antioxidant restored T cell activity and made some resistant cancers more responsive to immunotherapy in mice.