Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

A growing body of experimental work on how single bacteria sense and respond to their environment has reopened a long-standing question in biology and philosophy: can an individual cell be conscious?

The announcement additionally noted that throughout 14 months of follow-up, UP421 maintained its pancreatic islet cell ...

One of the most widely accepted models for how cells remember their identity may be incorrect. This is shown in a new study ...

Personalized therapies for diabetes, while showing promise in international studies, is met with healthy skepticism from ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and ...

Leigh syndrome is a rare metabolic disorder that begins in childhood and causes severe neurological and muscular problems. The disease has long been considered untreatable. In a pilot study involving ...

Errors in chromosome segregation cause more than 80% of early human embryos to contain cells with an incorrect number of chromosomes, a phenomenon called aneuploidy. While aneuploid cells are normally ...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) isn’t caused by just one faulty switch in the brain; it’s more like a tangled orchestra of genes and cells thrown off-key by trauma. With many genetic players ...

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has identified a promising strategy to treat brain ...

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. Cardiac cell death and myocardial fibrosis after ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury are the primary causes of impaired cardiac function ...