http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress) -- Adult brains generate thousands of new brain cells called neurons each day; however only a small fraction of them survive. The rest die and are consumed by scavenger cells called phagocytes. Until now, scientists have not fully understood how this process works, which phagocytes are unique in the brain, and how the removal of dead neurons influences the production of new neurons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-major-discovery-adult-brain-dead.html Neuroscience Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:26:25 EST news232210644 Cells are the building blocks of the human body. They are a focus of scientific study, because when things go wrong at the cellular and molecular level the consequences for human health are often significant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-insights-cell-division-metabolism.html Medical research Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:47:13 EST news231943576 Work by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London could point to a new way to treat aggressive types of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-molecular-movements-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:55:52 EST news226572918