Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves ...

Scientists have uncovered a key mechanism in jellyfish embryos that provides new insights into how the body plan of these ...

Danés, principal investigator of the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Lab at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has shown ...

Cells navigating in complex microenvironments frequently encounter narrow spaces that physically challenge migration.

This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

Jan. 31, 2025 — Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its frontline defenders -- T cells -- lose their ability to ...

Bone-marrow-derived multipotent progenitor stromal cells — or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) — are the common predecessors of cells of the mesenchymal lineage, such as bone, cartilage and fat ...

Stem cell biotechnology is a field of biotechnology that develops tools and therapeutics through modification and engineering of stem cells. Stem cell biotechnology is important in regenerative ...

Cells on 3D porous substrates can be found on the surface and interior, whereas cells on Petri dishes are bound to a 2D environment. Proteins naturally found in animal serum and those synthesized by ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are the predominant innate lymphocyte subsets that mediate anti-tumor and anti-viral responses, and therefore possess promising clinical utilization. NK cells do not express ...