Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School have found a novel way to ...

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

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, affecting millions of people and placing ...

A new computational tool developed by researchers has uncovered genetic evidence directly linking Alzheimer’s disease to the ...

Trageting abnormal brain cells linked to chronic inflammation may be key to treating people with progressive forms of MS, a ...

Researchers have identified a rare type of brain cell whose overactivity may contribute to schizophrenia-like symptoms, such as cognitive deficits and disrupted sleep.

Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of ...

New research from Edith Cowan University shows that a single bout of weight training or HIIT can boost anti-cancer myokines and reduce breast cancer cell growth in survivors.

Some types of sickle cell disease cause severe illness, while others have a mild or unapparent course. Sickle cell disease is present from birth and inherited from genes you receive from your parents.

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has successfully combined single-cell RNA sequencing ...