University of Illinois Chicago scientists have redesigned a treatment for the most common pediatric leukemia to eliminate its severe side effects, like blood clots and liver damage.

The human body is composed of over 37 trillion cells, each with a limited lifespan. These cells are continuously replaced to ...

Researchers identify target to enhance NK cell function for liver cancer therapy in Korea New insights into immune cell dynamics could lead to innovative therapies for cancer in Korea.

The body produces millions of red blood cells each day in the bone marrow. They circulate around the body for about 120 days, then go to the liver and spleen, which destroy them and recycle their ...

All cells carry effectively the same bunch of genes, but different groups of those genes are used in, say, a nerve cell versus a liver cell—or even a different variety of nerve cell. An ...

Some patients, for example, had a fusion to PRKACA in the ductal cells of the liver, producing cholangiocarcinoma, or in the ductal cells of the pancreas, producing intraductal pancreatic ...

is a condition where excess fat builds up in liver cells. It is often linked to obesity, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, and excessive alcohol consumption. While early stages of fatty liver ...

As a metabolic center, the liver prevents inappropriate immune responses to abundant dietary antigens within the liver that could result in liver injury. This self-preservation mechanism can however ...

really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said. Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its ...

According to precedent and due to his status, Yoon will probably be assigned a solitary cell, likely bigger and better appointed than the standard 6.56 square metre (71 square feet) single cells.