Drugs that limit the activity of cells called neutrophils could make heart attacks less severe without compromising the ...

Cells do more than carry out chemical reactions. New theoretical work suggests they may also generate usable electrical ...

Membranes are constantly bending as a result of heat fluctuating randomly through the cell. In theory, any voltage produced ...

Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a new way to reprogram T cells, ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

Natural killer cells, or NK cells, are elements of the immune system capable of rapidly locating and destroying cancerous or ...

Living cells may generate electricity through the natural motion of their membranes. These fast electrical signals could play ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

An engineered viral protein enhanced the anticancer function of T cells in mice, suggesting a new strategy to improve immunotherapy. Courtney and his team sought to exploit this property of TIP to ...

It is well known that obesity typically leads to inflammation and dysfunction of fat tissue that increases the risk of ...