Astrocytes, once thought to be the brain’s housekeepers, may actually be silent powerhouses of memory.

The protein DNase1 is one of the oldest biological agents in history. It has been on the market since 1958 and is now used, ...

Coronavirus is a group of RNA viruses that affect mammals and birds. It infects the wind pipe and lungs of humans and birds ...

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease of lung parenchymal scarring that is triggered by ...

"Our research shows that the substances found in aerosols from cannabis vaping, when they come into contact with human ...

Is vaping cannabis less harmful to your health than smoking it? Many people seem to think so. However, two studies conducted ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...

Bats are known as natural hosts for highly pathogenic viruses such as MERS- and SARS-related coronaviruses, as well as the ...

Discover how subtle changes in vocal tone and patterns can reveal cellular aging processes before visible signs appear, and ...

However, most human IgG3 allotypes (distinct alleles ... Panel A depicts transcytosis across polarized epithelial cells in adults. In intestinal epithelial cells abutting the lumen of the gut ...

But they didn’t know that skin cells can send spikes ... Amherst — grew human skin cells or dog kidney cells on electrode-lined chips. Both are epithelial cells, a cell type that forms ...

Credit: UMass Amherst Granick and Yu used an epithelial-cell-coated chip with 60 precisely placed electrodes to eavesdrop. Yu, a cell-culture expert, grew a single layer of human epithelial cells on ...