Tissue-resident macrophages are present in virtually every organ of the body to execute a variety of vital functions and ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...

Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord are wrapped in an insulating sheath known as myelin. For a long time, this barrier, ...

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular ...

A new study identifies molecular factors that promote small vessel disease - and an active drug that can restore impaired ...

At present, around 59 million adults worldwide have diabetes, about 64 million are diagnosed with heart failure, and ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

A friend just underwent a rotator cuff repair and is recovering well. But I was wondering, what if you get to a point where ...

A new high-throughput study using preexisting publicly available data shows that E. coli proteins containing a specific structure, called a non-covalent lasso entanglement, are more likely to misfold ...

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that ...