Scientists are developing a "sponge" that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially ...

In experiments with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report new evidence that precursors of myelin-producing cells—one ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

KAIST researchers have developed a way to reprogram immune cells already inside tumors into cancer-killing machines. A drug ...

Cells that are about to die send a signal to an executioner protein, but sometimes, those cells can fight back and regenerate ...

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have found that a key protein can help to regenerate neural stem cells, which may improve ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop the body's immune system from attacking itself. The discovery of these ...

Rescuing larvae from missile-damaged lab, Weizmann team finds cells that not only beat back death, but also multiply and spur ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...