Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that ...

A new study identifies molecular factors that promote small vessel disease—and an active drug that can restore impaired ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

Mitochondria can lose power like batteries, but they can potentially be regenerated—a promising development than can be used ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

Gene regulation is the process by which cells control the expression of their genes, determining when, where, and to what extent each gene is expressed. It is a fundamental mechanism that allows cells ...

Dietary restriction reshapes CD8+ T cell metabolism by increasing ketone body–driven acetyl-CoA production, preventing ...

Reducing calorie intake helps cancer-fighting immune cells do their jobs more effectively, reports a study by Van Andel ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

Dietary iron deficiency in mice alters lung T cell activation during influenza infection and leads to memory T cells that are ...