In a new study, Mass General Brigham researchers explore the causes of immune aging, a barrier to successful cancer ...

Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in a new study employing a lab model for myocardial infarction, the medical term for ...

Decoding the cardiac cellular universe: primary cell resources for dissecting heart microenvironment-driven disease ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Chinese stem cell therapy reverses heart failure in 90% of patients, landmark trial finds - Patients who received treatment ...

A cell can suddenly form a large rounded pocket on its surface, as if its membrane were swelling locally. Researchers at ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not understood much about how to manipulate the mechanical side of that equation. That ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a role for the youth-associated protein TIMP2 in ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. " We know each of the proteins ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer - and how restoring ...