A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the ...

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

Every time our body encounters a new disease-causing agent, a crucial defense system called adaptive immunity comes into play ...

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy technique capable of improving the observation of living cells. The study, ...

Men in northern Ontario seeking fertility testing can now do it at home, thanks to a new mail-in semen testing kit recently ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

When you think about materials used in medicine, you likely picture metals, plastics, or synthetic gels. Researchers at the ...

Texas A&M researchers found a way to make stem cells produce double the normal number of mitochondria using nanoflower particles. These energized stem cells then transfer their surplus “power packs” ...

A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Significantly, he is also the second of the seven who received stem cells that ...

During Earth’s early days, bacteria developed a self-destruct strategy for detecting and destroying phages before they’re able to take over the cell’s machinery. While this does wonders for our immune ...

In 2006 immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi co-wrote an article in Scientific American that now feels prophetic. In the article, entitled “Peacekeepers of the Immune System,” Sakaguchi and his co-author, ...