A new role has been uncovered for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling. These signals are part ...

The fascinating science of microchimerism, how paternal DNA remains in mothers after childbirth, affecting health and ...

They retain this ability even when parts of the retina degenerate ... do these properties remain stable even if the cells lose their original function -- for example, if the retina's photosensors ...

Researchers have successfully developed a modular synthetic translational coupling element (SynTCE), significantly enhancing ...

Centenarians don’t just live longer. They’re also healthier, even in extreme old age. A biobank of centenarian stem cells ...

Microgravity accelerates brain cell development, showing faster maturation in space-grown organoids versus Earth-bound ones.

Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cognition, but little is known about its specific ...

After years of trying, Mesoblast has won US FDA approval for its stem-cell therapies to treat the fatal graft-versus-host ...

Cytoskeleton rearrangements promote formation of a giant structure called a GUVac that stops cells from dying when they become detached from the extracellular matrix.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a physician, wrote, “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most ...

A team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show how proteins called "chaperones" are vital in ensuring that neurons can transmit signals to one another. When ...