When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both ...

Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in women. It is a highly variable disease, defined as a malignancy of the epithelial ducts in breast tissue.

Scientists have discovered that our specialized immune cells, called T cells, are what they eat -- their switch from functional to 'exhausted' depends on the switch from metabolizing acetate to ...

Mucormycosis is a rapidly progressive, invasive fungal infection that affects patients who are severely immunocompromised, as well as patients with diabetes and persons with immunocompetence who have ...

Red blood cell disorders are conditions that affect the number or function of red blood cells (RBCs). RBCs are one of the main components of blood. They are among the most abundant cell types. The ...

When Motorola introduced its first mobile phone in 1984, the company hoped for a buying frenzy. But even the best marketers couldn’t have predicted the success of mobile phones. Today, mobile phones ...