Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

Photoreceptors are specialized cells in the eye that convert light energy into neural signals. Several diseases that cause irreversible vision loss, including age-related macular degeneration, ...

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This suggests that immune cells may intentionally access nuclear DNA from dying cells as part of regulated immune signaling processes. Such extracted nuclear DNA could act as molecular messengers, ...

Like a poison pen, dying cells prick their neighbors with a lethal message. This may worsen sepsis, Vijay Rathinam and colleagues in the UConn School of Medicine report in the Jan. 23 issue of Cell.

Inflammation, the movement of immune cells to an area of infection or injury, is important for tackling infections and restoring health. When the inflammatory process gets out of control, however, the ...

When cells are about to die, they send signals that trigger proteins which are supposed to destroy them, but it doesn’t always happen that way. Some cells activate the signal but then resist the ...

Professor Indraneel Mittra and his team show that DNA fragments from dying cells function as agents of horizontal gene transfer in mammalian cells. For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can ...

A common vitamin may be quietly helping cancer cells evade death. The body depends on vitamin B2, also called riboflavin, but ...