Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the cells that produce insulin—a ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the cell, transmitting signals, speeding up reactions and helping neighboring ...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular kind of cell can stop ...

Researchers at Umeå University have discovered that the microscopic "bubbles" released by bacteria in our body do not just ...

For the Nobel laureates, the journey began in the 1980s with Shakaguchi’s discovery, and was furthered in the 1990s-2000s by ...

A study published in Nature Communications describes how lymphatic endothelial cells assist in generating robust immune ...

New research shows pollution particles can stick to red blood cells, traveling through the body—and masks may help stop them ...