An avalanche is caused by a chain reaction of events. A vibration or a change in terrain can have a cascading and devastating ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as heat and touch into signals sent to the brain — and how these signals can be ...

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.

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

There's a sensation that you experience—near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert—from a sound so total that you ...

They are called “Natural Killer” (NK) cells for a reason. These cytotoxic lymphocytes, a part of innate immunity, are the body’s cellular “boots on the ground,” capable of swiftly and ...

Several transcription factors in these cells follow a broad-to-restricted expression trajectory ... retained and required in tactile somatosensory neurons. In developing nociceptors, Prdm12 ...

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 ...