Microglia, the immune cells that protect the brain, are thought to maintain a healthy brain environment by removing unwanted substances through dynamic remodeling of the actin cytoskeleton, the cell's ...

Alternative therapies that aid the body's immune system to fight bacteria have shown promise in addressing the global threat of antibiotic resistance. University of Queensland researchers have found ...

A type of immune cell circulating in the blood contributes to cognitive ageing, and blocking its effects can reverse the ...

A cell on its way to becoming skin pigment, blood, or nerve does not make that shift alone. It responds to a dense web of ...

A subtle failure during cell division can set off dramatically different outcomes, according to new research exploring whole ...

A tiny circuit, printed from ink made of atom-thin crystals, just fired electrical pulses that a living brain cell recognized ...

As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ...

Cells use a surprising “pearling” motion to evenly distribute mitochondrial DNA. This newly uncovered process may be key to ...

Stem cells found in the lining of the mouth could help make the most aggressive form of brain cancer easier to treat, ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...

Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...