Futuristic wearables such as e-skin patches, e-textiles and even internal e-implants on the organs or nerves will need to conform far more closely to the contours of the human body than today ... are ...

Taste, pain, or response to stress—nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches ...

Tissues consist of a heterogeneous mixture of different cell types, complicating our understanding of their biological ...

Sterols are among the most abundant lipids in eukaryotic cells, yet are synthesized through notoriously long, complex metabolic pathways. Researchers have used a novel approach to show how they ...

When Treg cells are produced, they are trained to recognize specific peptides, including self-peptides from the body. When ...

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

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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. The ...

"We discovered aging triggers the arrival of a new type of adult stem cell and enhances the body's massive production of new fat cells, especially around the belly." In collaboration with the UCLA ...