High-pressure homogenization is a powerful technique that can rapidly break apart stubborn cells, for example, by limiting the number of passes needed to disrupt them. The cooling available in a ...

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

In Naviaux’s framing, extracellular ATP acts as a danger signal that keeps cells in that defensive mode. If the signal stays high for too long, the body stays focused on protection rather than growth ...

Viruses are masters at taking over our cells: They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes simplex virus 1, which causes ...

Microscopy image of a human stem cell-derived hippocampal organoid. When the tissue carries an epilepsy-causing variant in the SCN8A gene, inhibitory neurons (seen in red) are disrupted, and ...