It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body cavities -- are mute, ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

By unraveling the complex choreography of cellular machinery, Michigan State University researchers are helping identify the ...

Microglia, the brain's immune cells, usually serve as diligent guardians. They eliminate intruders such as microbes and clear ...

Olga Rivera Ballesteros from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is ...

A T-cell therapy developed by Orca Bio, a private biotech company, significantly reduced the risk of a debilitating immune ...