When the body encounters infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to the affected cell and form the immune synapse ...

Membrane proteins present significant technical challenges in drug discovery, yet their role in biology make them highly ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to ...

A blood pressure drug has the potential to combat one of the most common, difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, according ...

A collaboration between the University of Geneva and Lausanne University Hospital has shown in new detail how the body's defenses fight back against malignant cells. Those defenses involve T ...

Researchers debunk what science believed about brain cell structure for 100 years, finding axons form repeating pearl-like ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny ...

Millions of graphene-based toothbrushes have already reached consumers, long before scientists fully understood how the ...

Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny ...

Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new ...

Degeneration of retinal ganglion cells can cause irreversible vision loss. Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) could, in theory, be ...