Structures called desmosomes connect cells to each other and transfer mechanical stress. They are especially important in tissues under continual mechanical stress, such as heart muscle (pictured).

Scientists have built an artificial neuron that’s so realistic it fires, learns, and responds to chemical signals just like the real thing – a breakthrough that could transform computing, medicine, ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack. Most survive, but at a cost. In the aftermath, the heart cells often stiffen in a process called myocardial fibrosis, a hidden ...

Following injury from a heart attack, immune cells called neutrophils release a peptide that punctures stressed heart cells and destabilizes their electrical activity. This triggers life-threatening ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), ...

Longeveron Inc. (NASDAQ:LGVN) is one of the best meme stocks. On July 21, Longeveron obtained a US patent license for stem cell technology from the University of Miami, which could help in developing ...

Genentech is continuing its summer of downsizing and cost-cutting, this time with plans to terminate a cell therapy deal worth as much as $2 billion. The pact is with Adaptive Biotechnologies and ...

Men who have lost their Y chromosome from a significant number of their immune cells are more likely to have narrow blood vessels, a key contributor to heart disease, according to a study of more than ...

Scientists have engineered dual-membrane nanoparticles that home in on heart tissue after a heart attack, delivering regenerative molecules while evading the body’s immune defences. Image Credit: tong ...

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifted nearly $500 million designated for mRNA vaccine development to "safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as ...