Our understanding of how cells interact with each other has been driven for decades by the central concept of ...

Most cell signals are chemical in nature. For example, prokaryotic organisms have sensors that detect nutrients and help them ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing energy-rich nutrients. And yet the process of how the walls begin ...

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized roles like brain, liver or muscle cells and organize themselves into ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease in which healthy lung tissue is gradually replaced by scar tissue. While the early events that initiate this change are poorly understood, ...

The cells lining skin capillaries are constantly sending each other messages—tiny pulses of calcium that help regulate blood flow, sense physical forces and keep vessel walls intact. Scientists have ...

In cancer, tumor escape often arises following treatments. This is especially true during deprivation therapies, where this phenomenon has been linked to steroid signaling reactivation despite ...