Scientists have long been exploring ways to kill cancer cells by starving them of the nutrients they need to survive. A new study suggests that genetically modified fat cells could help researchers ...

The total number of fat cells stays equal after a diet program, study showed Bottom Line: Fat cells can shrink, but they don't go away. What if your doctor told you that even after the weight ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. More than a decade ago, while studying fat cells in the mouse ear skin, Maksim Plikus and his colleagues observed a puzzling pattern in dye ...

Phagocytes may engulf both apoptotic and viable cells via calreticulin on the surface ... qualitative changes in CD47 after induction of apoptosis need to be substantiated and will be key to ...

According to new findings from University of Michigan scientists, eating too much fat could seriously hobble your immune ...

In multicellular organisms, the total number of cells is a balance between the cell-generating effects of mitosis and cell death that is induced through apoptosis. A disruption of this delicate ...

In Ming-Chiu Fung’s immunology lab, Hogan had been investigating how disturbances in the cytoskeletons of cells might contribute to the fragmentation of mitochondria during apoptosis, the most ...