A New York University study has found that kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells. According to the study authors, their findings could help researchers better ...

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better ...

The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle single-cell data. Four scientists reflect on how the project is transforming ...

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Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...

Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

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CAR T-cell therapy has the potential to revolutionise how we treat certain types of cancer by genetically engineering someone’s own immune cells to attack the disease – but it is also cumbersome and ...

T cells, also known as lymphocytes, are a type of white blood cell that play an important role in the body's immune response.

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