A squishy worm that starts its life as something of a floating head in the Pacific Ocean is changing what scientists know ...

Selecting specific cells to be used in an investigational therapy has led to improved recovery of heart function in a new study employing a lab model for myocardial infarction, the medical term for ...

Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and St. Jude Children's ...

Immune cells can become exhausted after prolonged exposure to cancer, gradually losing their ability to attack tumor cells.

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Blocking a tumor antioxidant restored T cell activity and made some resistant cancers more responsive to immunotherapy in mice.

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not understood much about how to manipulate the mechanical side of that equation. That ...

Combining ATRA with anti-PD-1 therapy improved tumor suppression and survival in brain tumor models compared with anti-PD-1 ...

When people think about health, they often focus on specific organs like the heart or brain. But many changes related to chronic conditions or ageing begin in the smallest units of your body — your ...