What we have done now is to find an even simpler memory, which is common not just across different animals, but across all cell types,” Kukushkin explains of his team’s new study.

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

They isolated these lipid-filled cells and analyzed their contents. All of your cells contain the same library of genes, but those genes aren’t always activated. Which genes did these cells express?

In Version 64 of the tables, released in June, the researchers added 9 new results. The group has seen major improvements in all cell categories since 1993, when the tables were first published.

Jan. 31, 2025 — Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its frontline defenders -- T cells -- lose their ability to ...

"We wanted to create an organoid that includes all the cell types found in a real pancreas," explains Amanda Andersson Rolf, first author of the study. "With such an organoid, we could study how ...

Your child might have a stem cell transplant as part of their treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Having a transplant means destroying as many leukaemia cells as possible and replacing ...

Recycling takes place in our cells at all times: in a process called autophagy, cell components that are no longer needed are enclosed by membranes and broken down into their basic building blocks.