For decades, scientists have accepted that the immune system naturally weakens with age. Georgia Tech biomedical engineer and ...

A review published in the journal Molecular Biomedicine provides a comprehensive overview of the METTL family, a group of methyltransferase-like proteins crucial for cellular function. METTL family ...

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," which enables researchers to better understand how human cells function 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 ...

All cells metabolize nutrients to generate the energy and molecular building blocks required for survival. Cancer cells, ...

A massive analysis of immune cells in human tissue is yielding clues to the root causes of lung and autoimmune diseases.

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...

Cells that stop dividing do not simply vanish from the body. Some remain active, support repair or suppress tumors, while ...

From ATP production to cellular repair, mitochondrial resilience may help determine how well cells age and which strategies ...

A team of researchers has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale. This platform, called soTILT3D for ...