Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called ...

Some of our biggest threats can come in the tiniest forms—viruses and bacteria. Thankfully, we are born with a built-in ...

Scientists have long suspected that stress hormones help fuel the spread of cancer. Now, new research has uncovered how a ...

Mitochondrial defects are associated with the development of diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). Studies in mice and in human tissues, by researchers at the University of Michigan, have now found ...

Fibroblasts, cells that repair heart damage, might cause a cycle of stiffening and scarring in certain heart conditions.

By tracking the fate of individual embryonic stem cells, researchers have found that endoderm cells—early embryonic cells ...

Two new USC studies unveil a blueprint that makes it possible to generate specific kidney cell types on demand—cells that ...

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