The hugely ambitious project of mapping the estimated 37.2 trillion cells of the human body is close to reaching a historic milestone – the first draft of the 'atlas.' We got a glimpse at what's ...

A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome."Like the full-size organs in our ...

Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins ...

Hoping to someday stave off immune rejection after xenotransplantation, researchers at New York University's Langone ...

Using 'fission yeast', a single-celled organism that mirrors many of the inner workings of human cells, the research team ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

In fact, gastrointestinal epithelial cells (those lining the entirety of the digestive tract, not just the stomach) make up around 12 percent of the cellular turnover that the human body sees each ...

While there was an outlier estimate of a colossal 200 million trillion cells in the human body, most of these estimates lay between 70,000 trillion and five trillion. That's still a range of ...

Scientists are mapping out the 37 trillion cells of the human body and changing what we thought we knew. ... Image source, Getty Images. James Gallagher. Health and science correspondent ...

Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international research consortium, have profiled 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people around the world. Working in over 100 countries, the ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.