Humans rely on the arsenal of cells, molecules, and biochemical pathways of the immune system to defend the body when it's threatened by pathogens. But there are many different biological mechanisms ...

We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (T RM). These specialized immune cells are among the body's first responders to disease. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This complex process, known as cell differentiation, holds the key to understanding ...

Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues are shedding new light on a tumor's earliest ...

When the CEO of Nvidia talks, decision-makers listen, from investors to business executives to Nobel Prize committees. Ever since Jensen Huang observed six months ago that “for the first time in human ...

Breakthrough partnership with Universal Robots transforms "artisanal" manufacturing, making personalized, life-saving cancer treatments affordable and widely available. Leveraging collaborative robots ...

A clinical trial to reverse age-related vision conditions using stem cell treatment could finally deliver on the promise of a ...

Early data suggest chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy can achieve meaningful long-term results. A novel cell therapy that first emerged as a treatment for hematological malignancies may be ...

Scientists report that the ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

A project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has successfully stimulated stem cells in a manner that reliably induced them to develop into bone cells. The technology could ultimately lead to ...

In a discovery that could reshape approaches to regenerative medicine and bone repair, researchers have found that human stem cells can be prompted to begin turning into bone cells simply by squeezing ...