An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, ...

Scientists focused on certain organs — plotting the jobs of cells in the mouth, stomach and intestines, as well as cells that ...

Your brain is constantly forming new memories, based on experience and repetition. Scientists now know that cells in other ...

A N ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That ...

Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas have profiled 100 million cells from over 10,000 people worldwide, aiming to map the ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by ...

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell.

Obesity creates lasting epigenetic changes in fat cells, making weight regain easier. Early prevention is key, as these ...

Scientists unveiled an early map of the human body's estimated 37 trillion cells as part of a project to develop a Human Cell ...

We all start our lives as symmetric balls of cells. In humans, during the first few weeks after fertilization, embryonic ...