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

When companies seek to grow their capabilities, such as by implementing AI or expanding their services, this might not be easily achieved by simply adding more employees to handle new tasks. New ...

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

People need to sleep, and sleep deprivation can cause many changes in the brain. But we have a poor understanding of why sleep is so crucial. New research has examined a fruit fly model to assess how ...

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

Cilia are ubiquitous on cells, playing a variety of roles, Dr. Nicastro explained. While non-motile cilia serve as sensors for chemical and mechanical signals, motile cilia rhythmically beat to propel ...

Researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to memory storage in the brain. Their model, known as dense associative memory, would help explain the brain's ...

Aging men often lose the Y chromosome in a growing number of their cells—and it may be far more dangerous than once believed.

The regulatory division of the immune system is vital for its overall function. Immune T cells originate in the bone marrow and then travel to the thymus—a kind of biological police academy. 2 Here, ...

A new study by physicists and neuroscientists from the University of Chicago, Harvard and Yale describes how connectivity among neurons comes about through general principles of networking and ...