Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

The human body is made up of trillions of cells that perform functions from skin protection to muscle movement. Cells can ...

Using a variety of laboratory and animal models, the team found that cysteine fuels the production of the antioxidant ...

A research team from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the ...

Aging does not arrive all at once. It builds quietly across years, touching cells long before symptoms appear.

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

When cells experience enough chronic stress, they can stop dividing permanently. In this state of cellular limbo, known as replicative senescence, cells remain alive but no longer proliferate.

Researchers have identified a crucial ion channel, TMEM175, that acts like an overflow valve in the cell’s recycling system.

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an ...

Immunotherapy has been one of the most transformative treatments for cancer patients in recent decades, shifting the emphasis ...