Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

The human body contains about 100 trillion cells ... Although the DNA code from cell to cell is the same, there are many different types of cells within the body, each with a specific function.

Red blood cells rely on glucose for energy and convert glucose to lactate. The brain uses glucose and ketone bodies for energy. Adipose tissue uses fatty acids and glucose for energy. The liver ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

The human body uses three types of molecules to yield ... So why don't all cells simply use lipids as fuel? In fact, many different cells do oxidize fatty acids for ATP production (Figure 2).

Scientists have the technology to grow humans in Petri dishes, but they say there are better uses for it: to combat aging.

When Wolfrum and his team used single-cell RNA sequencing on mouse fat cells they found that adipocytes came in 10 varieties. These findings expand the limited white, beige, and brown classification ...

Microplastics discovered in life-threatening arterial plaque are associated with strokes. A new study found altered gene ...

The scientists showed that, right at the onset of mild illness, the body also produces special T cells previously known only from chronic, severe infections and tumors. There are different types ...