Cells have an internal skeleton that maintains their structure and also drives their movement. Known as the cytoskeleton, ...

Two research teams 3000 miles apart discover a common bacterium triggering chronic gastrointestinal pain — while developing a ...

New Cleveland Clinic research shows how mosquito-transmitted viruses – like Zika, West Nile, Yellow Fever and dengue viruses – hijack host cells to promote their own replication and infection.

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

defenses.Lauren Bylsma worked with Professor Arlene Hoogewerf to use bacterial and cell culture methods to grow bacteria and macrophages, and use fluorescent and biochemical methods to examine the ...

Modern medicine relies on our ability to genetically engineer cells and turn them into miniature protein production plants. The trouble is that, in addition to expressing the material that is desired ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly infectious virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have now had several years to study this virus, and several new reports have outlined the many ways that the ...

Functional plasticity of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) and T cells is regulated by host environmental cues, but the influence of pathogen-derived virulence factors has not been described. We now report ...

A combination of blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely ...

Scientists were pleased when they learned more about how the common cold gains a foothold in the body, identifying key cellular checkpoints that are important targets of the virus.