The damage from smoking has long been traced through the lungs, heart, and blood vessels. But another pathway may be helping ...

Depression is thought to affect over 250 million people around the world. It is a condition that is difficult to treat because there is still a lot we don’t know about why it happens at the biological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A confocal microscopy image shows senescent cells (red) tagged with molecules known as aptamers (blue). (CREDIT: Aging Cell) At ...

All processes such as wound healing, hair growth, and the replacement of old cells with new ones depend on cell division.

The gastrointestinal tract is the biggest immune organ in mammals. The gut extends its influence all over the body through various links like the gut-liver axis, the gut-lung axis, and the gut-brain ...

Treating rare diseases can be complicated at the best of times, and it gets even more complicated when different patients with the same disease exhibit different symptoms. Now, researchers from Japan ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that plays a key role in this protection is the microfold cell (M cell). These ...

Hypothyroidism is a significant risk factor for IPF, with a higher prevalence in IPF patients compared to the general population. Mendelian randomization confirmed the association between ...

Dual-positive cells are circulating cells that bear both tumor-cell and immune-cell markers, and are thought to be hybrid cells resulting from rare fusions of tumor cells with immune cells. Recent ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ceased to divide but are still alive. These “zombie cells,” or senescent cells ...