Our cells' membranes have many functions. They not only provide mechanical protection but also precisely control which ...

One alternative has been to implant human neural stem cells into the brains of another species, where they’ll generally ...

A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,000 individuals reveals that while brain structure, function, and behavior can all predict a person's biological sex, an individual's degree of sex typicality in ...

Two new studies from Johns Hopkins University are providing scientists with an unprecedented view of how human cells repair ...

A new 3D-structure of a cancer-linked protein bound to its cellular partner reveals details of how the protein binds to ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a ...

Researchers from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of ...

Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls. Those pearl-like structures ...

A Stanford Medicine study has challenged the traditional understanding of brain development, finding that the forebrain and hindbrain arise from separate progenitor cells. Researchers traced this ...

Urolithin A, a compound the body can make after eating foods such as pomegranates, improved heart relaxation in preclinical ...

A scientific team has developed a laboratory model that reveals how antibody-producing plasma cells migrate, mature and ...

Introduction Cell surface proteins are essential regulators of cell communication, mediating immune activation, cell adhesion ...