disease & medicine, cell & molecular biology

Blind rats are made to see after sheets of cells implanted into their eyes make themselves at home.

A trial to test whether so-called c-kit cardiac stem cells, first reported by Piero Anversa, could help patients with chronic heart failure has been halted in light of suspicion surrounding his work.

In a condition called mechanical allodynia, when everyday activities exact misery, the same neurons that ordinarily transmit normal touch are involved in feelings of pain.

The compound engages with a receptor in hair follicle cells and prevents skin cells from dying.

The awards for comical but practical scientific discovery also include cannibalism and self-colonoscopy.

A gene responsible for the free-moving, primitive nature of fetal cells is expressed in some breast cancer cells in mice and humans.

Boosting both neurogenesis and a brain-derived growth factor can mimic the cognitive benefits of exercise in a mouse mode of Alzheimer’s disease.

Even if people exercise, hydrogen peroxide and other reactive molecules continue to accumulate in the tissues.

What happens when myosin inside red blood cells can't do its job?

A double gene-transfer therapy transformed the non-neuronal cells into rod photoreceptors in the retinas of animal models of congenital blindness.

The cell type was discovered via single-cell RNA sequencing of thousands of cells in mouse and human airways and may play a role in cystic fibrosis.

Levels of tau, amyloid-β 42, and IL-10 extracted from extracellular vesicles that started out in the brain were higher in military personal suffering head injuries compared with healthy soldiers.

Despite the treatment being given for only six weeks, the positive effects lasted for a year.

Researchers discover cells in the early life stage of the Schistosoma mansoni parasite that contribute to adults’ reproductive systems.

Among 11 infants treated to date, most survived and their heart function improved.

Stem-cell–derived natural killer cells engineered in a similar way to CAR-T cells may pave the way to “off the shelf” cancer therapies that aren’t patient-specific.

The miniscule carriers successfully transported and released live cells at a particular location within living mice.

Scientists engineered human cells to produce a molecule that stimulates insulin secretion in the presence of caffeine.