Sleep is essential for much of the animal kingdom. During the night, neuron and tissue repair mechanisms are activated to aid ...

Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they duplicate their DNA and grow a web ...

When killer T cells of our immune system divide, they normally undergo asymmetric cell division (ACD): Each daughter cell inherits different cellular components, which drive the cells toward divergent ...

aThe Cardiac Exercise Research Group at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway ...

Naked mole-rats are well known for both their wrinkly appearance and for their unexpectedly long lives. The source of this extended lifespan has been under scrutiny for decades. While many rodents are ...

Objectives: In patients surviving myocardial infarction (MI), adipose tissue infiltration within the scar is a common pathologic finding and may contribute to dysfunction and arrhythmogenesis. However ...

Figure 1. Stem cell populations involved in lung regeneration and repair after injury. After airway damage, basal cells have the capacity to differentiate into both club cells and ciliated cells. Club ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena, Colombia. 2 Department of Geriatrics, University of Sinú, Cartagena, Colombia. 3 Department of General Medicine, Cooperative ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA ...

An artificial intelligence-predicted image of a region in the SPRTN enzyme (green structure) that can recognise and bind to ubiquitin chains (orange structure). Researchers at the University of Oxford ...