The axolotl, a type of salamander that stays in the tadpole form throughout its life, is a master of regeneration. Axolotls ...

When a cell receives a message from outside, it generates a molecule called cyclic AMP (cAMP) to relay this message. To ...

A groundbreaking discovery offers hope for reversing kidney damage, challenging the notion that it's irreversible.

Mitochondria can lose power like batteries, but they can potentially be regenerated—a promising development than can be used ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

By contrast, glial cells seemed to be electrically silent and were dismissed as dull by most researchers. Some glia, called ...

Two related studies published today in Nature Metabolism show that a specialized intracellular recycling mechanism—chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)—is essential for muscle health. The research, ...

Researchers say in future it may be possible to grow personalized organoids from patient’s own tissue, to test potential treatments in advance.