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

Dynamic, reversible modifications of DNA and RNA regulate how genes are expressed and transcribed, which can influence cellular processes, disease development, and overall organismal health. Small ...

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

Historically, scientists studied brain organization properties by examining tissue samples from post-mortem or by using ...

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

New advances allow scientists to study DNA, RNA, and gene activity in individual cells rather than in bulk tissue samples.

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

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

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

Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of ...

This basic research study presents useful data concerning the menstrual fluid composition and its potential for endometriosis biomarker research. However, despite solid bioinformatics analyses, the ...