Creating mini mitochondria factories helped recharge damaged cells in a dish, providing proof-of-concept work that could pave ...

A Cedars-Sinai study has identified a previously unknown role for astrocyte cells in how the brain responds to damage and ...

Every cell depends on proteins to function and stay healthy. These proteins are made inside the cell from amino acids, but ...

While its reputation is at times dismissed as folklore or the efforts of orange juice marketing campaigns, vitamin C’s ...

Creatine plays a vital role in the body's energy system, but it also points to effects beyond "energy" that help brain and ...

In recent years, the field of immunology has increasingly focused on the role of glycolipids and sphingolipids in the differentiation and function of innate immune cells, such as macrophages, ...

“This is a paradigm shift,” says Donn Van Deren, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, who ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Two complementary studies reveal how an insufficient supply of energy in macrophages, key immune cells in artery walls, ...

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before ...

CD8⁺ T cells are central effectors of antitumor immunity, capable of recognizing and eliminating malignant cells. Their presence within tumors often ...