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 ...

Scientists want to know what causes B cells — which direct T cells to attack cancer — to malfunction and how they can be ...

Diets and healthy eating habits hold promise for preventing and treating diseases, but far less is known about acute effects on the immune system shortly after a meal.

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the ...

Diabetes mellitus affects more than 500 million people worldwide, and both Type 1 (T1D) and Type 2 (T2D) forms converge on a common endpoint: the loss or ...

As people age, most maintain normal blood sugar even as insulin resistance tends to rise. New research suggests that ...

The molecule cAMP, which plays essential roles in mammalian cells, is less well understood in plants. In a new Science ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

A major new clinical study, SUPER 2, has been published in Nature Communications, reporting that Efsubaglutide Alfa, a ...

Researchers combined electronic sensors with human islet cells to create living ‘cyborg’ organoids transmitting troves of ...

For decades, depression has been explained to patients as a “chemical imbalance” in the brain, a vague phrase that never ...