The organs and tissues in your body are made up of trillions of cells, and how well these cells function plays an important ...

Learn more about apoptosis' role in cancer and how finding the best animal model to test cancer drugs may lead us to cows. To stay healthy and eliminate accumulated genetic errors, our bodies ...

Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a tightly regulated biological process necessary for normal tissue maintenance and development. However, aberrations in apoptotic signaling networks are ...

Mouse cells are commonly used to test potential drug candidates. Now, veterinary researchers at Leipzig University have found that, in certain respects, bovine cells more closely resemble human cells ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in ACS Nano, how proteins in cells can be controllably activated through heating, an effect that can be used ...

After cells die, they leave a residue that sends messages to other cells in ways that are valuable to the immune system. But this process can also be hijacked by viruses such as influenza, according ...

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...