Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide. Despite medical advances in recent years, this type of ...

These cells are known to respond to a variety of signaling pathways, but this study makes the case for BMP acting via binding to MuSK in maintaining the quiescent state. A central question in adult ...

Researchers from the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) and the Department of Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC) ...

Programmed cell death-1, or PD-1, has become a headline-grabbing molecule best known for its role in cancer immunotherapies ...

These findings suggest that KIR2DS2-positive (KIR2DS2+) natural killer (NK) cells could be an attractive therapeutic target ...

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic gut inflammatory condition affecting the colon in humans. This study uses human samples as well as a mouse model of colitis induced by a chemical, DSS, to ...

Researchers discovered alcohol use disorder (AUD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibit similar patterns of gene dysregulation, hinting that alcohol consumption may hasten Alzheimer’s progression.

An international team led by the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden has visualized the structure and function of primary cilia ...

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Answer: The dial tone is used to let the telephone user know that a signal is available, and that the system is working. If ...