They are distinct entities primarily composed of enamel and dentin, lacking the living cells and vascularization that ...

A Northwestern Medicine-led study has identified mutations in the gene CEP76 as a new cause of ciliopathies, shedding light on a complex group of disorders that affect multiple body systems, according ...

Challenging a long-standing assumption regarding the adult brain, recent research has demonstrated that individuals can ...

In the fight against disease, programmed cell death – also known as apoptosis – is a key protective function of the body. It ...

Keratin is the tough protein that forms hair, nails and hooves. It’s also responsible for something far stranger: human horns.

A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a ...

Novel nephron organoids that can be fine-tuned to represent the proximal convoluted tubule or loop of Henle have been ...

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

Ion channels generate electrical impulses produced by living cells. Synthetic ion channels could serve as tools for ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

The first animals must also have invented ways to produce the many different kinds of cells we have today; muscle cells, ...

1 Department of Oncology, Lianyungang Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, Lianyungang, China 2 Department of Oncology, The Affiliated Lianyungang Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, ...