In certain contexts, the Notch receptor may participate in “reverse signaling,” influencing neighboring cells directly.

A team at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular ...

As part of the body's first line of defense against foreign invaders, macrophages play an integral role in the innate immune ...

Macrophages use cell‑volume changes to sense danger, reprogram gene expression, and heighten inflammatory and antiviral ...

New stem cell-based embryo model reveals previously unknown communication between early tissues that become the spine and muscles in the central part of the body. From the moment an embryo starts to ...

Cancer cells that accumulate extra copies of their entire chromosome set can start behaving like immune cells, swallowing their neighbors and migrating through tissue to seed tumors in distant organs.