In the event of a heart attack, the affected part of the heart muscle can no longer be supplied with oxygen and nutrients. As a result, the heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) die off. Scar tissue ...

A defining feature of Alzheimer's disease is the abnormal, sustained accumulation of protein aggregates such as tau inside brain cells, which disrupts the cells' normal functions. As time passes, ...

An international team has built an atlas of vascular aging, the Human Aging Endothelial Cell Atlas, by analyzing gene ...

Scientists built an inducible human cell line that overproduces TDP-43, triggering toxicity, mislocalization, and gene ...

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 ...

Advanced nanoscale imaging technology has revealed the diversity of living cells in human milk and uncovered new insights ...

To uncover how endothelial cells, the inner linings of blood vessels. change over the course of a lifespan, an international research team led by Laura de Rooij at the CeMM Research Center for ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

Blocking part of an excessive cellular stress response helped preserve insulin-producing pancreatic cells in mouse ...

A new USC-led study links abnormal immature astroglia, star-shaped cells that support brain function, to lower fluid intelligence, or the ability to solve new problems, in older adults with epilepsy.