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

To stay healthy, our cells rely on a self-cleaning mechanism that removes defective or unnecessary components. This process, ...

CorMedix faces a sharp near-term revenue decline due to CMS reimbursement changes impacting DefenCath pricing starting in ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Nanoflowers, which look white, can help healthy cells, colored yellow, deliver mitochondria, colored red, to nearby cells. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar Most of your cells rely on microscopic structures within ...

Think back to that basic biology class you took in high school. You probably learned about organelles, those little “organs” inside cells that form compartments with individual functions. For example, ...

A laboratory study out of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center outlines a new way to boost the effectiveness of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in solid-tumor cancers, resulting in ...

Soay sheep, native to Scotland, are known for their hardiness and small size—and also for their cheatin’ hearts. The breed earned the dubious distinction of being the least monogamous in a new study ...

Interacting with chatbots can shift users' beliefs and opinions. A newly published study aimed to figure out why. Post-training and information density were key factors. Most of us feel a sense of ...

All cells need to sense and respond to their environment, to know when to activate genes, build proteins, and carry out their basic functions. One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how ...

Introduction: Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is considered a potential therapeutic strategy for cancers, as it exacerbates calcium influx through voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs), thereby ...

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and ...