Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

To stay healthy, our cells rely on a self-cleaning mechanism that removes defective or unnecessary components. This process, ...

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

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

When tissue is severely damaged, surviving cells can respond in a concentrated burst of biological repair known as ...

The father of a teenage leukaemia patient has offered to donate his stem cells to his own son, after the transplant from the ...

Inflammation has to fight pathogens fast—but it can't get out of control. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that targeting a specific immune process ...

New Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center research reveals how dormant metastatic cancer cells protect themselves from the ...

The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

While families around Northern Ireland settled down for Christmas cheer last month, exchanging parcels around the tree, one ...