The liver is organized into distinct zones in which liver cells perform different functions. The blood vessels of the liver ...

Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in a new study employing a lab model for myocardial infarction, the medical term for ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

The essential amino acid leucine can boost cellular energy production by protecting key proteins on mitochondria from being ...

Immunotherapies, especially CAR T-cell therapy, have fundamentally changed cancer treatment in recent years, particularly for certain forms of leukemia and lymphoma. Yet not all tumors respond equally ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons are gradually lost, ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not understood much about how to manipulate the mechanical side of that equation. That ...

MILAN — Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) improved markers of beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity in people with recent-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D), a new prespecified analysis of SURPASS-EARLY ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. " We know each of the proteins ...