Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...

New evidence shows that precursors of myelin-producing cells — one of the few #brain cell types that continue to be produced ...

Donald Weaver, a professor of neurology and physician at the University of Toronto in Canada, said he had long questioned why ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

Gut support cells communicate with surprising precision – like brain neurons – using tiny extensions to send instructions to the stem cells responsible for maintaining and healing the intestine. The ...

For the first time, high-resolution time-lapse videos of tiny bits of living plants show how they assemble their protective cell walls, researchers report March 21 in Science Advances. The image ...