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 ...

Diets and healthy eating habits hold promise for preventing and treating diseases, but far less is known about acute effects ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

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 ...

A new Cell study suggests that T cell exhaustion in tumors is driven in part by failed proteostasis, causing damaged and ...

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 ...

Unlike our organs, cell organelles such as mitochondria are not fixed in place, but when, where, how, and why organelles move remain unclear. Research published in the Biophysical Journal shows that ...

T cells are crucial components of our immune system, serving as critical protectors against infection and disease. But there ...

During infection or cancer, cytotoxic T lymphocytes attach to their target and establish an exchange zone known as the immune ...

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes are the body's specialized "killer" cells, precisely eliminating infected or cancerous cells. Their ...