When the SARS-CoV-2 virus enters the human body, it breaks into cells with ... show that such cells are strikingly abundant. Many are epithelial cells, which line the outer surface of organs. The new ...

In addition, specialized cells in the human vascular system detect changes in blood pressure — information that the body uses ... with an appropriate receptor on a cell surface, this binding ...

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin have created a data science framework to better understand how cells travel through the body.

Scientists could reshape cancer treatment by helping powerful drugs work better in the body by exploiting ... takes a different path: using cell surface receptors like CD36 to actively bring ...

In this type of diabetes, the immune system specifically destroys insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreatic islets — the body ... receptors is disrupted in diabetes. Many classes of cell ...

CD163 might not be the most exciting name in the world, but behind it lies one of the body's most important defense receptors, which steps in when red blood cells ... sits on the surface of ...

Since its discovery in the 1990s, programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) has been regarded as a leading target in cancer treatments. A checkpoint receptor that often resides on the surface of ...