Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...

A German University has explained how each and every one of our individual cells have an internal alarm system that reacts to ...

A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies ...

Brain immune cells may be responsible for the formation of Alzheimer's plaques, revealing a key turning point in this neurological disease.

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment, and ...

Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or ...

Scientists have developed a new class of microscopic antibody fragments capable of functioning inside human cells, overcoming a long-standing limitation in biomedical science.

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...

A newly identified cellular system monitors subtle variations in genetic coding, hinting at a hidden level of control over ...

The current path to CAR-T cell therapy is, by any measure, a logistical ordeal. A patient’s immune cells must be drawn out of ...

Human cells can possibly sense far beyond surfaces they touch, with cancer cells being able to probe about 10 microns ahead, ...

Some of the signs of ageing in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age.