A cell therapy made from donor heart cells slowed the decline of cardiac function in boys and young men with Duchenne ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in DNA's shape have an important influence on gene activity and energy production.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a role for the youth-associated protein TIMP2 in ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac ...

A scientific review highlights how PIWI proteins and piRNAs regulate stem cell function, offering new epigenetic targets to ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital created a single-cell atlas of a key class of spinal neurons involved in motor coordination. From that resource, they identified a small subgroup of ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered how tumors disable immune "gatekeeper" cells that alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer - and how restoring ...

Sugars, or glycans, play a crucial role in biology—from cell signaling and recognition to interactions with pathogens.

Researchers at Iowa’s public and private universities are focusing their efforts on white blood cells as they explore ...