Thanks to the memory capabilities of our immune cells, our body knows how to fight pathogens better the second, third, and fourth times we encounter them. Immune memory also makes vaccination possible ...

Researchers have now described a mechanism by which one cell can be converted into another entirely different one. The research is vital for the future development of cell therapy treatments, a ...

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have determined that type II innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), a type of immune cell, can change its characteristics and functions after a ...

Scientists working with adult stem cells have shown for the first time how they can be transformed, step by step, into fully specialized cells that finally build into complete tissues. In a series ...

Our results suggest that the high frequency of transformation and its dependence on confluency as well as on medium composition are characteristics of cell differentiation rather than mutation.

In the transformation, for example, of a somatic cell (any cell of the bones, tissues, organs, blood, or skin of the human body), it is very probable that metabolic changes are needed as a result ...

Manipulating stem cells is one of the hardest tasks one might choose to do in a laboratory. First, they are very hard to come by, second, they tend to die if not stimulated to grow, and third ...

After decades of failed attempts, scientists have finally succeeded in coaxing animal cells into photosynthesizing. So far, the researchers have only managed to achieve the feat in cultured cells ...

Some might say it looks like a finger. Others might see a worm. Scientists in the field often liken it to an antenna. The technical name is primary cilium. This slender, microscopic appendage juts out ...