New York, NY — June 24 — Scientists have long known that, to form tissue structures and organs, stem cells migrate and differentiate in response to the other cells, matrix, and signals in their ...

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

A research group has revealed that the checkerboard-like arrangement of cells in the inner ear's organ of Corti is vital for hearing. The discovery gives a new insight into how hearing works from the ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

As the body ages, organ function progressively declines and the risk for a wide range of diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases increases. Understanding how ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the ...

The eye contains complex layers of cells, one of which is called retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI, a part of the National Institutes of Health) have ...

Researchers have found that a deeper look at proteins and cells may help explain why prostate cancer tumors often become resistant to hormone therapy. Researchers found that looking at cell patterns ...

A multicellular system isn’t a system just because it has many cells. The cells must be of different types. Indeed, a great many different cell types are needed. To distinguish as many cell types as ...

Biological tissues exhibit two contradictory properties: they have a robust architecture that is required for their maintenance and resistance to stress, and they can be extensively remodelled during ...