In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

A new method developed by scientists could soon make liver disease treatment easier and more effective—without a transplant.

Metabolism guides the activation states of regulatory T cells, the immune cells that prevent inappropriate activation of the ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Alon Monsonego had discovered that T helper lymphocytes, a subset of immune cells ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

The human body possesses remarkable abilities to heal, regenerate and protect itself when given the right nutritional support. Certain foods contain unique compounds that can simultaneously support ...

Patients with weak heart function who receive stem cell therapy shortly after a heart attack are at lower risk of developing heart failure and related hospital stays compared with standard care, finds ...

Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of blocking it to halt progression of the disease.

Fibrosis occurs when inflammation activates immune cells and fibroblasts to release collagen and cytokines that remodel and ...

CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy improved lung function and skin thickness in patients with severe refractory ...