In patients developing end-stage liver disease, the damage has become too severe for the liver's normally extraordinary regenerative capacity to repair or compensate for it. Once this "point of no ...
A team of researchers has found a hidden "army" deep inside half the global population that protect the human body from a ...
If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew ...
Researchers created a human spinal cord organoid, injured it, then applied an experimental therapy. What happened next was ...
When do peripheral nerves develop? Researchers used "mosaic barcodes" to prove that neural crest cells commit to their ...
When an axolotl loses a leg, it grows back. Bone, muscle, nerves, skin, even the individual digits return in roughly the ...
A rogue set of “zombie” immune cells may be driving aging and fatty liver disease by flooding tissues with inflammation.
Medical data from the Artemis II crew, after its 10-day mission around the moon, will be crucial if humans are to fly farther ...
UCLA researchers have identified a rogue population of immune cells that quietly accumulates in aging tissues and in the livers of people with fatty liver disease. Clearing these cells, they found, ...
Brown fat has long carried a kind of scientific promise. Unlike the more familiar white fat that stores energy, this darker tissue burns it, turning fuel into heat when the body needs to stay warm.
An army of flu-fighting immune cells lives on in the nose long after infection.