Have you ever asked how doctors help the body repair itself when a serious disease damages cells or tissues? Modern medicine ...

Musculoskeletal disorders are a primary cause of disability worldwide, especially in aging societies like Japan. As ...

In the evolutionary history of life, the ability of a cell to separate its inner world from the external environment was an ...

A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that ...

As muscles age, their cells lose the ability to regenerate and heal after injury. Cornell Engineering researchers have created the most comprehensive portrait to date of how that change, in mice, ...

When injured, cells have well-regulated responses to promote healing. These include a long-studied self-destruction process that cleans up dead and damaged cells as well as a more recently identified ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases like skin cancer, cells also have repair mechanisms that can fix ...

A protein long studied for its role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia now appears to serve a ...