Many biological processes are regulated by electricity—from nerve impulses to heartbeats to the movement of molecules in and ...

Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new ...

As people age, their immune system function declines. T cell populations become smaller and can't react to pathogens as ...

New data highlight liver-encoded delivery of immune modulators as a strategy to mitigate age-related immune dysfunction.

Researchers in Japan have shown that the mitochondrial protein COX7RP extends healthy lifespan in mice by enhancing ...

A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and ...

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Scientists at the Van Andel Research Institute found that reducing caloric intake can help immune cells fight cancer.

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly ...

The chemical reactions on which life depends need a place to happen. That place is the cell. All the things which biology recognises as indisputably alive are either cells or conglomerations of cells ...

Understanding the human cell is vital to progress in the life sciences and to human health. Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life responsible for all of life’s processes. A typical human ...