Researchers have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround cancer cells in pancreatic tumors. The newly discovered cells counteract tumor development and may ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround cancer cells in pancreatic tumors. The newly discovered cells counteract ...

Clearance of dying cells is essential to the health of tissues. Study of hair follicles finds that, when follicle stem cells encounter dying neighbours, they become temporarily able to engulf and ...

Researchers developed CAR T cells targeting uPAR to attack both tumor cells and supportive microenvironment cells. The ...

Some of the signs of aging in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age.

Tumours have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered another surprising trick ...

For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue.

Genes aren't the sole driver instructing cells to build multicellular structures, tissues, and organs. In a new paper published in Nature Communications, USC Stem Cell scientist Leonardo Morsut and ...

A newly discovered cell that matures into two specialist cell types – an immune cell responsible for tissue repair and a cell that forms blood vessels – significantly boosts wound healing, according ...