The distinct population of endothelial cells that line blood vessels in the insulin-producing "islets" of the human pancreas ...

Landmark single-cell dataset of one billion cells will be used to train new AI models to advance understanding of cellular ...

Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded $2.95 million from ...

Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. Rice University bioengineers have ...

Scientists uncover an enzyme that boosts cancer cell metabolism to fuel growth. The enzyme, GUK1, supports metabolism in cancer cells to help tumors grow.

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This ...

Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, ...

Immunotherapy, which uses programmed immune cells to selectively destroy cancer cells, has transformed cancer treatment.

NK, iNKT, and γδT cells exhibit intrinsic anti-malignant properties, potential for alloreactivity, and human leukocyte-antigen (HLA)-independent function. Here we review the biology of each of these ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

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Feb. 6, 2025 — A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these ...