The body has an intricate system to defend against infections where each type of immune cell plays a distinct role. Now, a ...

When the lungs are attacked by a virus, the damage doesn't stop there. The body's natural defenses cause inflammation while ...

A new discovery inside your cells may change how scientists understand disease and design future treatments. Researchers have ...

This may help treat chronic wounds or diabetic ulcers—and one day maybe degenerative diseases, nerve damage and bone ...

A variation in the gene PICALM has a profound effect on microglia function, increasing the risk of Alzheimer's developing.

Chemists discover how key contrast agent works, paving a way to create new markers needed for correlative microscopy that can image the structure and signaling of cells at the same time. Two labs at ...

A new MIT study in Cell of 3.5 million cells from more than 100 human brains finds that Alzheimer’s progression—but also ...

Ability of HSPCs in space to make healthy new cells declined, while signs of molecular wear-and-tear became more pronounced.