Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

The safety of dyes obtained from the bloodred webcap fungus can vary, according to a new doctoral dissertation exploring their toxicity. Completed at the University of Eastern Finland, the study found ...

Your skin is the largest organ in your body, making its resilience increasingly important. While many people understand the ...

Cartilage cells that contain fat explain why some skeletal tissues are less rigid than others, and could one day be grown in ...

A newly identified cartilage cell generates fat vacuoles and makes the surrounding tissues pliable. This helps keep the ear ...

Researchers hope the AI tool will aid in the development of cell-specific gene therapies to treat diseases such as cancer.

to profile over 31,500 cells from both healthy rat skin and the stasis zone at nine different time points after a burn injury. This comprehensive approach revealed 26 distinct cell types and the ...

The study identifies new cell types within the skin that are targeted by EBOV during infection and shows that human skin specimens actively support EBOV infection. Overall, the findings ...

The results are relevant for the development of novel skin ... Sep. 27, 2024 — Estrogens are known to drive tumor growth in breast cancer cells that carry its receptors, but a new study ...

or could resist drying out and spread through desquamated skin scales (for example, smallpox particles). Once inside a host, another advantage of cell-free spread is that viruses transit rapidly ...

Previous research has found differences in gene expression between humans and chimpanzees, and that human cells tend to have ... supporting the structure and clearing out debris.