A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

Grafting patches of lab-grown muscle to the surface of the heart could offer a lifeline for people waiting for a transplant.

A "pocket" on the protein cyclin B is responsible for ensuring that the steps of cell division take place in the correct ...

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to immune-boosting white cells. This vital function is often disrupted in ...

CAR T cell therapy is one of the most promising new cancer treatments to emerge in recent years. It involves removing a ...

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of oxygen and nutrients, killing the cardiomyocytes there. This leads to a ...

Hidden within our bones, marrow sustains life by producing billions of blood cells daily, from oxygen-carrying red cells to immune-boosting white ...

Research led by the Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute in Japan has discovered a surprising way cancer evades the immune ...