The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you alive. The smallest of these cells, like platelets and red ...

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water sloshes around inside the cells that make up organs ...

Treating types of cancer with CAR T-cell therapy is expensive and inconvenient, but a streamlined approach that creates the ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

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.

Recent breakthroughs in making stem-cell based human embryo models are raising urgent questions about to what extent they should be treated like natural embryos and whether they are open to misuse.

Tiny robots made from the body's cells could be a new way to repair tissue and treat disease. The technology opens up the prospect of patients having a 'personal' robot to fix damage.

The human body contains about 40 trillion bacteria, viruses and fungi, creating a microbiome that roughly matches the number of human cells one-to-one, said researcher Dr. Amir Zarrinpar, an ...

We now know how many cells there are in the human body. ... “You would guess that there’s an average cell size and that we’d mostly be made up of this average cell size,” says Galbraith.

(CNN) — It’s still one of the biggest mysteries in science: How does a human cell — too small to see with the naked eye — divide and reproduce to ultimately become a human body made up of ...

If you used their density to estimate the cells in a human body, you’d come to a staggering 724 trillion cells. Skin cells, on the other hand, are so sparse that they’d give you a paltry ...

The cells linked up in a petri dish, allowing the neurons to control muscle contractions. Living cells in hand, the team then assembled the robot’s two main components. The first of these embeds ...