When pathogens enter our cells as part of an infection, our body will trigger a programmed cell death known as "pyroptosis" ...

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age or die. This applies just as much to mammalian cells as it does to seemingly ...

NYU Langone Health researchers found that a type of cell death caused by a buildup of highly reactive molecules suppresses ...

New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

A protein notorious for its role in Alzheimer’s disease may hold the key to supercharging the aging immune system, according to new research. Scientists have found that a byproduct of amyloid-beta ...

Naturally occurring calcium channels act as pores on the membranes of excitable cells, such as those found in nerves and ...

A study of 48 post-mortem brains found a protein that appears to protect brain cells from Alzheimer's — even in people who had significant amounts of amyloid plaques in their brains. Now a new insight ...

If cancer is a disease of overabundance, where cells divide without restraint and tumors grow despite the body's best interests, then degenerative diseases are disorders of deprivation. When ...

Scientists have uncovered a stealthy tactic used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus: one of its proteins can leap from infected cells to healthy ones, effectively tricking the immune system into attacking the ...