A type of rare T cell triggers a cascade of signals amplifying inflammation and ultimately leading to liver fibrosis, ...

During pregnancy, the placenta must dig into the uterine wall deeply enough to tap into the mother’s blood supply and nourish ...

A new map of the "maternal-fetal interface" reveals a new type of cell, as well as the types of cells most likely to be ...

Imaging is a critical technique in biology—from identifying cancerous cells in biopsies to observing how immune cells like ...

Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) have developed MitoCatch, a system that ...

Cell therapy is an advanced biomedical approach that utilizes living cells as therapeutic agents to treat disease or repair tissue. 4 Scientists isolate cells from a patient or a healthy donor and ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed an improved method for creating insulin-producing cells from human stem cells. The results, ...

A growing body of research suggests astrocytes, star-shaped brain cells once dismissed as support players, may lead the way ...

Stem cell therapy is an emerging treatment for type 2 diabetes. Although it’s not yet FDA-approved in the United States, it is a rapidly expanding and promising field of research. Stem cells are ...

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...