Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

Mitochondria can lose power like batteries, but they can potentially be regenerated—a promising development than can be used ...

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...

Reducing calorie intake helps cancer-fighting immune cells do their jobs more effectively, reports a study by Van Andel ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...

In a study published in the journal Nucleic Acid Research, a research team at Karolinska Institutet has performed a ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. Even when immune memory cells form in the lung after influenza infection, insufficient dietary ...

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, including baricitinib, block cytokine signaling and are effective disease-modifying treatments for several autoimmune diseases. Whether baricitinib preserves β-cell ...