Not all scars are created equal. That's the conclusion of a new study by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers: They found that two distinct types of scars, referred to as "hot" and "cold," can ...

In the infancy of his career, Northwestern University heart researcher Connor Lantz, PhD. made a discovery about infants.

Finnish researchers show in a new study that pituitary macrophages, the immune cells located in the pituitary gland, help ...

Background Treatment strategies for Crohn’s disease (CD) suppress diverse inflammatory pathways but many patients remain ...

Chair of the Department of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology of the Knight Cancer Institute at the Oregon Health and ...

Study Reveals Why Newborns Can Regenerate Heart Tissue While Adults Struggle After a Heart AttackA new study in experimental animals reveals a ...

Researchers found that newborn immune cells regenerate heart tissue by producing thromboxane. Mimicking this process in ...

An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

Newborn babies have a special ability to regenerate heart tissue after an injury, but adults do not. When adults have a heart ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults ...

Understanding why newborns, but not adults, can regenerate the heart could lead to treatments that "reprogram" adult ...