A precursor of cholesterol, previously categorized as harmful, can protect cancer cells from cell death. In a groundbreaking study, a team led by Würzburg Professor José Pedro Friedmann Angeli has ...

The Galat laboratory at Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, has developed an elegant system to derive blood cell precursors from human ...

Nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord are wrapped in an insulating sheath known as myelin. For a long time, this barrier, which is essentially the brain's white matter, was believed to serve the ...

Too much fat can be unhealthy: how fat cells, so-called adipocytes, develop, is crucial for the function of the fat tissue. That is why a team led by researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB ...

Saved from precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the Nobel Prize winning CAR T-cell therapy gave Bryn Ailinger a very merry Christmas ...

During coordinated development of two neighboring organs from the same germ layer, how precursors of one organ resist the inductive signals of the other to avoid being misinduced to wrong cell fate ...

As of today, the central role of mitochondrial metabolism associated with tumorigenesis and progression of malignancies has been deeply investigated. Moreover, oxidative phosphorylation inhibition ...

A nationwide team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell ...

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) of the immune system are involved in allergic diseases. But currently, therapy targeting ILC2s is not available. Now, researchers have identified a novel ...