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

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

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

Though the cell map is still in its early days, it is already giving scientists a lot of valuable information. It could ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered a surprising silver lining of COVID-19 infection. A new study by researchers at Northwestern ...

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

"We’ve found a molecular basis for the yo-yo effect," said Ferdinand von Meyenn, professor of nutrition and metabolic ...

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