Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

The human body is made up of trillions of cells that perform functions from skin protection to muscle movement. Cells can ...

A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the ...

The cerebellum is instrumental in coordinating movement and refining motor control through intricate neuronal circuitry, with Purkinje cells serving as the central integrators of sensory inputs and ...

Using a variety of laboratory and animal models, the team found that cysteine fuels the production of the antioxidant ...

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

Aging does not arrive all at once. It builds quietly across years, touching cells long before symptoms appear.

Researchers have identified a crucial ion channel, TMEM175, that acts like an overflow valve in the cell’s recycling system.

Macrophages, the immune system’s front-line scavenger cells, do more than simply digest dead cells. A new study published in ...