Our cells' membranes have many functions. They not only provide mechanical protection but also precisely control which ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

A scientific team has developed a laboratory model that reveals how antibody-producing plasma cells migrate, mature and ...

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 ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

Small challenges can activate cells’ protective systems. Scientists are exploring whether food compounds and medicines can ...

A squishy worm that starts its life as something of a floating head in the Pacific Ocean is changing what scientists know ...

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 ...

Crypt-base-columnar cells are continuously dividing intestinal stem cells that generate IECs, which are composed by distinct specialised cell types that play different functions: Enterocytes (in the ...