Brain immune cells may be responsible for the formation of Alzheimer's plaques, revealing a key turning point in this neurological disease.

A high-pressure method of instantaneously freezing cells has proven to be effective in the first empirical validation of its ...

In the past decade there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of single cells, to identify the functions and activities of any cell through ...

The immune system consists of inflammatory and regulatory T cells (Tregs) that promote or dampen immune activity, respectively. These cells react to specific antigens that specialized cells like ...

Banding patterns of cellulose increase the stability of plant cell walls, much like the corrugated patterns in cardboard. Penn State biologists developed a method to isolate plant cells and observe ...