A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

Immunotherapies – treatments that aim to make the body's natural immune system more effective – are becoming more widely used ...

A new study tracking thousands of B cells across more than 100 germinal centers in mice reveals how the system consistently ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

For decades, biologists assumed a cell's energy simply diffused to wherever it was needed. It turns out the most important ...

Cells may generate their own electrical signals through microscopic membrane motions. Researchers show that active molecular processes can create voltage spikes similar to those used by neurons. These ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...