People who live to 110 years and older have large populations of a rare type of immune cell that can kill cancer 1, finds a ...

The immune system usually weakens with age, but one rare type of T cell becomes much more common in people who live past 110.

Cells travel through the body both individually and in collective groups during development, wound healing and diseases such as cancer. New research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at ...

The strongest results appeared when the enhanced natural killer cells were combined with cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

The thyroid gland consists of two types of hormone-producing cells that regulate the body's metabolism and calcium balance. In mammals, these cell types merge into a single organ, whereas in other ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

Researchers in China have identified dozens of genes in specific immune cells that may influence the risk of MS and ...

Cells act as both building blocks and biological robots. Here's everything you need to know about what they do and their role in health and disease. When Walt Whitman wrote that he contains ...

Contrary to long-standing views based on mouse studies, bone marrow-derived cells infiltrate the aging human brain, paving ...