Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease ...

Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own ...

New research shows pollution particles can stick to red blood cells, traveling through the body—and masks may help stop them ...

Left unchecked, immune cells can mistakenly attack healthy tissue: the hallmark of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 ...

Scientists at Duke University made a groundbreaking discovery. They found pancreatic alpha cells can produce GLP-1. GLP-1 is similar to Ozempic. This hormone regulates blood sugar. It may offer a ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the ...

When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins that make our ears ultrasensitive. By syncing these micro-movements, the cells ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to create and grow tissue. And in the event of an immune response, different ...

"I'll always protect you." Warner Bros Japan has revealed their full official trailer for a live-action manga adaptation called Cells at Work!, arriving in Japanese theaters in December. This is a big ...