Scientists have discovered why ovarian cancer spreads so rapidly through the abdomen. Cancer cells enlist normally protective abdominal cells, forming mixed groups that work together to invade new ...

Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, roughly one-fifth the width of a human hair, each cell contains a dense mix of proteins, organelles, and molecular ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is worried about cell phones. Under the department, the Food and Drug Administration has removed webpages that asserted the devices are safe, according ...

In most animals, stem cells are found in specific regions known as niches. The local environment in human bone marrow tightly regulates stem cells. This local control restrains growth and prevents ...

With the growing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), there is an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies. Here, we present amyloid-β-specific engineered CD4 + CAR-T as an approach to directly ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

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1Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Organ Donation and Transplant Immunology, Guangzhou, China.

Keeping a qubit stable is difficult enough, even in an ideal environment. Now, researchers have figured out how to make a protein behave like a qubit in a living cell. Fluorescent proteins were used ...