The delicate balance between cell death and regeneration is crucial for human health and longevity. Most mechanisms involved ...

An engineered protein turns off the kind of immune cells most likely to damage tissue as part of type-1 diabetes, hepatitis, ...

Genetic variation also plays a major role. It doesn’t encode trauma itself, but it shapes traits such as sensitivity to ...

They’ve discovered a previously unknown organelle – that is, a specialized structure that performs some specific function – inside human cells. The team named it the “hemifusome”, and in a paper ...