Akhilesh Gaharwar and PhD student John Soukar, along with their fellow researchers from the Department of Biomedical ...

Researchers have developed synthetic genes that function like the genes in living cells. The artificial genes can build intracellular structures through a cascading sequence that builds ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their ...

Scientists are learning how to revive faltering human cells by loading them with fresh power plants, effectively repairing ...

In several disease conditions, including infections and cancers, innate immune activation and nutrient scarcity occur ...

Hormones coordinate different body functions by carrying messages through the bloodstream to target cells and tissues. Hormonal imbalances occur through inadequate or excess hormone synthesis, which ...

A new study from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Institut Curie reveals how stem cells sense and respond to their environment, with implications for inflammatory bowel disease and ...

Red blood cells transport oxygen throughout your body, including to vital organs and tissues. They also help your body get rid of carbon dioxide. Too little or too many red blood cells may be ...