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(University of Edinburgh) Fresh insights into how our cells multiply could help scientists develop drugs to treat cancer.

Scientists have shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life.

Cells taken from people with a rare syndrome linked to autism could help scientists understand the origins of the condition.

The way cells in the gut fight off toxins produced by the hospital bug Clostridium difficile has been discovered by US researchers.

The world's first tissue-engineered urethras, grown in the lab using patients' own cells, have been hailed a success by medical experts.

(Centenary Institute) A new research system launched today at the Centenary Institute will give Australian researchers unprecedented ability to detect and analyze rare cells.

(Rockefeller University Press) Like some people, cells eat when they are under pressure -- but they consume parts of themselves.

A multi-function protein helps control this form of cannibalism, according to a study in the Sept. 6 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Bacterial pathogens delay their entry into cells.

A new study documents similar changes in the airway cells of nonsmokers amid those lighting up

VIENNA (MedPage Today) -- Researchers suggest that using antiretroviral therapy in patients with CD4-positive cell counts of more than 500 cells/microliter has limited benefit.