Neurons talk to one another using electricity. If you could hear these impulses, they might sound like constant, rapid-fire ...

Heart muscle cells do something similar, issuing electrical “heave-ho” signals that make the organ beat. Skin and other ...

Researchers uncovered how estrogen heightens gut sensitivity in females by activating PYY-secreting L-cells, which stimulate ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers have identified a metabolic switch that determines whether intestinal stem ...

Scientists have discovered that the internal shape of tiny drug-delivery particles—called lipid nanoparticles—has a big ...

A new study uncovers a surprising mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19, might cause ...

Lung cancer remains the world’s deadliest cancer, and cigarette smoke is its chief culprit. Chemicals in tobacco, such as ...

One of the first brain cells shown to make insulin is the neurogliaform cell. These live in a brain area important for ...

The following is a summary of “Towards precision medicine: inflammatory nasal epithelial transcriptomic profiles in long COVID,” published in the June 2025 issue of Journal of Allergy and Clinical ...

Researchers discover that a Covid-19 viral protein can latch onto healthy cells, prompting the immune system to mistakenly ...

Cancer plasticity allows tumor cells to change their identity, evade therapies, and adapt to environmental pressures, contributing to treatment resistance and metastasis. New research is targeting ...