Antiretroviral treatments for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) have been extremely successful in extending life expectancy ...

The body's cells change their shape to close gaps such as wounds—with part of the cell flexing depending on the curve of the ...

Cells close wounds by re-shaping their endoplasmic reticulum, switching between crawling and contracting movements depending ...

A new study has created the first single-cell map of how DNA is regulated and organized inside different cell-types of human ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only ...

New synthetic biosensors developed by Professor Josh Leonard give immune cells the ability to read their environment and act ...

For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering ...

Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play several major roles in the body's defense against cancers like renal ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

The most common cancer-causing strain of human papillomavirus (HPV), HPV16, undermines the body's defenses by reprogramming ...

Most cells in the body are polarized, showing some level of shape and functional asymmetry, such as apico–basal or front–back polarity. Tissues are formed from the coordinated integration of ...