Damage to the genetic material of mitochondria—the mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short—can lead to diseases such as ...

EU laid down restrictions on animal testing for the testing of cosmetics and their ingredients throughout the EU. Therefore, ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

Damage to the mitochondria, the 'power plants' of the cells, contributes to many diseases. Researchers now describe how cells with defective mitochondria activate a special recycling system to ...

Researchers found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic responses to food, suggesting that targeting such cells therapeutically could potentially lead to a ...

Observations of electrical signal propagation across colonies of epithelial cells suggest they may be able to communicate, ...

As cells are infected by microorganisms, they can pre-emptively die to prevent the replication and spreading of the pathogen. Cell death that is associated with the presence of pathogen-associated ...

Finally, proteolytic activity of MMPs can be inhibited by the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases, a group of proteins also produced by hepatic stellate cells. Activity grade, which represents ...

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