The human body is made up of trillions of cells that perform functions from skin protection to muscle movement. Cells can ...

Aging does not arrive all at once. It builds quietly across years, touching cells long before symptoms appear.

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an ...

A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

Researchers have identified a crucial ion channel, TMEM175, that acts like an overflow valve in the cell’s recycling system.

Immunotherapy has been one of the most transformative treatments for cancer patients in recent decades, shifting the emphasis ...

For years, biomolecular condensates were thought to be simple, liquid-like droplets with little internal organization. New ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built ...