The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development - but because ...

Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

Researchers have developed two innovative tools to help us delve deeper into cell communication, offering spatial insight ...

Our immune system spans two worlds - innate and adaptive. Innate immune cells are like troops at the gate ready to hold off invaders and raise the body's alarms. Adaptive immune cells are specialists ...

T cells sit at the center of modern immunotherapy, yet many of the rules that govern their activation, differentiation, dysfunction (e.g., exhaustion), and ...

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Tal Sharf (right, senior author), Tjiste van der Molen (middle, postdoctoral researcher), and Greg Kaurala (left, staff researcher). Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts.

New study by UC Santa Cruz team discovers that early pregnancy in mice reduces buildup of ‘confused’ cells that could lead to breast cancer later in life ...

Scientists report that the ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play several major roles in the body's defense against cancers like renal cell carcinoma. Natural killer cells, also referred to as NK cells, play ...