A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, ...

Now, we may know why zombie skin cells have this double agent-esque existence. Not all senescent skin cells are the same.

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

Cerebral malaria is caused by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito carrying P. falciparum. Once in the bloodstream, the ...

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

Scientists can build microfluidic systems in a Petri dish out of collagen, cells, and other proteins with structural ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have examined the developmental fate (the future tissue type) of shell-forming cells ...

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

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

Stem cells are often described as the body's master cells. Healthy stem cells can restore the blood system after cancer ...