T cells, also known as lymphocytes, are a type of white blood cell that play an important role in the body's immune response.

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Researchers collaborating on a BRAIN Initiative project unveiled the most comprehensive map of developing mammalian brains to ...

Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a ...

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Shani Talice and Benyamin Rosental explore how stem cells could help corals recover from stress and environmental damage ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona say a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells play a critical role ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

A Stanford study confirmed a complete reversal of type 1 diabetes in mice through a combination of stem cell transplants and ...

A cancer-targeting antibody that helps the body's immune cells spot and destroy hard-to-treat tumors such as triple-negative ...

Some types of sickle cell disease cause severe illness, while others have a mild or unapparent course. Sickle cell disease is present from birth and inherited from genes you receive from your parents.

A joint research team has successfully identified, for the first time, the specific types of defects responsible for ...