Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

Scientists have found that blocking microglia (specialist immune cells in the brain) prevents infant forgetting ("infantile ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

For a long time, neuroscientists treated this forgetting as a cognitive glitch or a simple lack of brainware maturity. But a ...

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...

When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

A new cancer therapy wakes up immune cells inside tumors and turns them against cancer.

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have created a molecule that naturally forms p/n junctions, structures that are ...

Stanford University-led researchers report that tumor cells hijack mitochondria from immune cells, reducing anti-tumor immune ...

A rapid interferon response from nasal epithelial cells induces a cascade of responses during infection, from reduced viral ...