Blood vessel cells keep fixed signaling roles for weeks, reshaping view of capillary communication

The cells lining skin capillaries are constantly sending each other messages—tiny pulses of calcium that help regulate blood ...
Medical Xpress

Looking to study neurological conditions, researchers produce over 400 different types of nerve cells

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cells in the human brain, according to the latest ...

By making key signaling molecules called β-arrestins into druggable targets, scientists crack long-standing challenge

To function normally, nearly every cell in the human body relies on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to receive and send ...
Frontiers

Cells in Context: Spatial and Single-Cell Dissection of Plant Immunity and Infection

Plant immunity research has undergone a transformative shift with the advent of spatial and single-cell technologies, ...
Frontiers

Single-cell and Multi-omics Insights into Cardio-Cerebral Development and Disease: Genetic Regulation, Redox Signaling and S-nitrosylation

The heart and brain are among the earliest and most metabolically demanding organs in human development. Though historically studied in isolation, both ...
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Friedreich’s ataxia therapy may protect cells against stress in SMA

Omaveloxolone (approved for Friedreich's ataxia) may help protect cells from stress and correct underlying dysfunction in SMA ...

Two studies point to beta cells as active players in type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is widely understood as an autoimmune disease, with the immune system attacking the insulin-producing beta ...