Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals some surprising discoveries about healing processes that are potentially triggered by the process of necrosis, ...

A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has identified a molecular switch that controls whether stressed ...

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, ...

Disorders of cell number that result from an imbalance between the death of parenchymal cells and the proliferation or recruitment of maladaptive cells contributes to the pathogenesis of kidney ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan studied what happens when macrophages—a type of immune cell—encounter dying cancer cells in tumors and discovered a mechanism that accelerates tumor growth.

Researchers at Toho University have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism controlling how dying cells release the inflammatory cytokine IL-33, a key driver of allergy, asthma, tissue ...

During transplantation, blood flow to the donor liver must stop as it's moved to the recipient. Once transplanted, ...

In a finding that could reshape how farmers protect livestock from the invisible toll of oxidative stress, researchers in ...

After cells die, they leave a residue that sends messages to other cells in ways that are valuable to the immune system. But this process can also be hijacked by viruses such as influenza, according ...

Institute scientists have developed a world-first compound that keeps cells alive and healthy when they otherwise would have died. The ability to swiftly intervene and prevent cell death – or ...

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.