Some tumor types spread throughout the body and develop metastases instead of staying at their original location.

In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu ...

Like a poison pen, dying cells prick their neighbors with a lethal message. This may worsen sepsis. New findings could lead to a new understanding of this dangerous illness.

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich have for the first time investigated how protein structures derived from fava beans affect a ...

Like a poison pen, dying cells prick their neighbors with a lethal message. This may worsen sepsis, Vijay Rathinam and ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is ...

A study published by the Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine and e-published by the U.S. National Library of ...

Certain tumor types do not remain at their point of origin but spread throughout the body and form metastases. This is ...

Similar to a small cut that heals itself after a short time, individual cells in our body suffer "wounds" in their protective ...

Here, we use a synthetic amphiphile to modulate the membrane mechanical properties of cell-derived vesicles and probe channel activation. Using precise membrane mechanical characterization approaches ...

Prof. Bozhi Tian of the University of Chicago is on the frontier of bioelectronics, building living machines that can heal, ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they may be exposed to blast waves that damage blood vessels in the ...