Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire chatter all over the nervous system. Heart muscle cells do something ...

The promise of stem cell therapy is powerful. Scientists can draw versatile cells from the human body and deliver them to repair injuries and fight disease from the inside out. But not all stem ...

Researchers engineer a herpes virus to turn on T cells for immunotherapy The technique could help in the fight against cancer Date: May 28, 2025 Source: Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan ...

First vascularized model of stem cell islet cells Date: May 23, 2025 Source: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Summary: Researchers have developed a ...

Maybe you remember high school biology. It was probably then that you learned about cells dividing through mitosis, and mentally repeated the terms interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have changed our understanding of how cells in living organisms divide, which could revise what students are taught at school. In a study published ...

Working with a line of colon cancer cells, Korean researchers figured out a way to throw a few genetic switches to cause the cells to revert back to a healthy state. The technique could have major ...

Citations N.V. Kukushkin et al. The massed-spaced learning effect in non-neural human cells. Nature Communications. Published online November 7, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53922-x.

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

In an older animal study involving long-term rectal administration of trypsin mixed with other enzymes (papain and chymotrypsin), antitumor effects were discovered in mice that had been administered ...