Researchers reveal epigenetic memory works like a dimmer switch, enabling more cell types than previously recognized.

When cells are healthy, we don't expect them to suddenly change cell types. A skin cell on your hand won't naturally morph ...

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

Researchers from Japan found that macro-heterogeneity (the presence of multiple cell types) and micro-heterogeneity ...

In a remarkable medical advancement, Chinese researchers have successfully reversed Type 1 diabetes in a female patient using ...

Ocrevus rapidly depletes immune B-cells in people with MS, but ongoing treatment also leads to changes in immune T-cells, a ...

Cells bumping against one another use electricity to identify which of their neighbors has the least energy to expel them.

Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...

Edits create cells that don’t trigger an immune response, allowing implant recipient to forego immune-suppressing drugs.

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called ...

People with type 1 diabetes must constantly rely on insulin injections or pumps, usually for the rest of their life after diagnosis. The autoimmune disease destroys the cells that produce the hormone, ...