they seemed to be invading another cell. Once inside, they could actually survive. This process, called entosis, seemed to explain the strange, nested cells that doctors sometimes saw in tumors, which ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

The new process, which they call erebosis or “deep darkness ... The cell shrinks and dissolves into discrete packages called apoptotic bodies, which are later consumed by cell-eating immune cells ...

Until now, the neurofibrosis process was considered irreversible. But, for the first time, our precise targeting research has shown that the function of these cells can be restored—providing new ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

Researchers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center have solved a cellular mystery that may lead to better therapies for colorectal and other types of cancer.

The sugar glucose, which is the main source of energy in almost every living cell, has been revealed in a Stanford Medicine study to also be a master regulator of tissue differentiation - the process ...