As we grow older, our bodies accumulate "zombie cells"—living cells that have stopped dividing or functioning normally but ...

Epithelial cells form the body's frontline barriers, helping keep microbes, toxins and other harmful substances out. Yet ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have identified a previously unknown cell type in the zebrafish heart that appears to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flatworms use newly identified ruptoblasts, exploding cells triggered by activin, to kill bacteria and reject foreign tissue.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A file photo of Stanford University. (DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images) A group of Stanford researchers recently discovered an ...

Stem cell research has emerged as one of the most promising and fascinating fields within modern biomedicine. These therapies are the result of years of research, aimed at restoring the body’s health ...

New research from the University of Oklahoma reveals a previously unknown chain of events sparking the development of cancer cachexia, a debilitating muscle-wasting condition that almost always occurs ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

As we grow older, our bodies accumulate "zombie cells"—living cells that have stopped dividing or functioning normally—but ...