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New research from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine provides insight into how binge alcohol exposure ...

Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialized connecting structures. An international ...

Rice University and collaborators in Switzerland have developed a platform to grow human-derived nerve cells and Schwann ...

The ability to precisely adjust the expression of genes inside the human body—ramping up protective ones and tamping down ...

Alcohol-related liver disease may trap damaged liver cells in a regenerative limbo, preventing the organ from rebuilding ...

Scientists from Gladstone Institutes, UC San Francisco and Stanford University, in collaboration with Biohub, have unveiled a ...

The most encouraging results came from studies in mice with damaged retinal blood vessels. When the lab-grown human cells ...

Natural killer (NK) cells eliminate target cells through antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), initiated by ...

From constructing cell-like systems to creating genomes from scratch, synthetic biology is having a moment. What will it mean ...

Researchers have found a way to supercharge natural killer cells, powerful immune cells that can attack cancer, so they can ...

Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their ancestors had been living ...