One immune cell may help slow aging by restoring the body's natural cellular cleanup process, according to a new study.

Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice ...

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A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically modified pig. The man’s organ function was sustained for almost five days with ...

Cells have many important processes and biochemical pathways. But some cells can go rogue, and refuse to obey the rules of these processes. Scientists have now discovered a rogue group of immune cells ...

Fifteen years ago, doctors in Europe noticed a remarkable thing happening in people with chronic hepatitis B infections. When patients went off their medications, the virus started to come back — and ...

ATP, adenosine triphosphate; CCL, chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 2; CCR, C-C motif chemokine receptor; CTLA-4, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4; DC ...

Jason Segel and Samara Weaving star in this gory home-invasion comedy directed by one of the members of the Lonely Island, Jorma Taccone. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an ...

When the liver is injured - for example, due to bile accumulation - immune cells become activated. In mouse experiments, the Würzburg team observed that certain immune cells undergo functional changes ...