Almost everyone carries Candida albicans. The yeast colonizes human mucous membranes—for example, the oral mucosa and the ...

The human gut harbors a vast and dynamic microbial ecosystem that extends far beyond its traditional role in digestion. Over the past decade, mounting ...

An illustration of lymphocytes, or white blood cells in the immune system, which include T cells and other disease-fighting cells Ruslanas Baranauskas / Science Photo Library via Getty Images When you ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of years later. Scientists have now discovered that a molecular system once ...

Activated immune cells secrete tiny capsules bearing DNA that can enter other immune and tumor cells to stimulate the body's defense systems, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell ...

Researchers at University College Dublin have discovered a previously unknown "courier system" that cells use to deliver coherent biological messages between each other, opening new possibilities for ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape long before birth, as the cells of a growing embryo ...

Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology. These models, known as synthetic or biomimetic cells, allow some of the basic ...

Manufacturing CAR T cell therapy—one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers—has to date involved an elaborate process, through which doctors first extract a patient’s immune cells ...

Knoepfler is a professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. At a Food and Drug Administration cell and gene therapy (CGT) roundtable last June, most speakers pushed for ...

mRNA molecule, illustration. [Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] Messenger RNA (mRNA) has already transformed medicine, most notably through COVID‑19 vaccines that taught cells to act as ...

Ribosomes don’t just make proteins—they can sense when something’s wrong. When they collide, they send out stress signals that activate a molecule called ZAK. Researchers uncovered how ZAK recognizes ...