The journey started with an enigma in the zebrafish embryo: some endothelial cells, actively involved in the initial stages ...

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Mitochondria can lose power like batteries, but they can potentially be regenerated—a promising development than can be used ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too ...

The immune cell repertoire is composed of many different cell types that are orchestrated in response to infection and other pathogens that enter the body. As a result, the body can defend itself ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

Dietary restriction reshapes CD8+ T cell metabolism by increasing ketone body–driven acetyl-CoA production, preventing ...

Dietary iron deficiency in mice alters lung T cell activation during influenza infection and leads to memory T cells that are ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...