Yale researchers have uncovered a way to make a type of white blood cells known as natural killer cells — which kill infected, damaged, or malignant cells in the body — more effective against cancer.

Two related studies published today in Nature Metabolism show that a specialized intracellular recycling ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona have uncovered a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells that play ...

A new study provides a detailed look at how the psychedelic compound psilocin acts on specific neurons within the brain. The ...

In humans, the process of learning is driven by different groups of cells in the brain firing together. For instance, when the neurons associated with the process of recognizing a dog begin to fire in ...

Drs. Jeanette Johnson, Elana J. Fertig, and Daniel Bergman review mathematical models and genomic data to simulate cancer cell growth. [University of Maryland School of Medicine] Researchers at ...

The study reveals vast differences in gene activity within the mitochondria of males compared to females. This is the first study to test effects of all 37 genes in the mitochondrial genome -- genes ...

Fluorescence microscopy reveals cellular morphology and dynamics in remarkable detail, but achieving clear visualization at fast acquisition rates remains a challenge. A fundamental trade-off between ...

A new study in the Journal of American Medical Association does not find a link between cell phone exposure and brain cancer. It also doesn't prove that the two are in no way correlated. What the ...

"We discovered a pronounced 'men are from Mars, women are from Venus' pattern," says marine and environmental biologist Suzanne Edmands. She refers not to human psychology, but rather to mitochondria, ...