Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a role for the youth-associated protein TIMP2 in ...

Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in a new study employing a lab model for myocardial infarction, the medical term for ...

For decades, scientists have accepted that the immune system naturally weakens with age. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer and ...

Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Sugars, or glycans, play a crucial role in biology—from cell signaling and recognition to interactions with pathogens.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer - and how restoring ...

Researchers at Iowa’s public and private universities are focusing their efforts on white blood cells as they explore ...

A scientific review highlights how PIWI proteins and piRNAs regulate stem cell function, offering new epigenetic targets to ...

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...