This image provided by Ana-Maria Cujba shows blood vessels in a portion of the human small intestine, March 21, 2024. (Ana-Maria Cujba/Wellcome Sanger Institute via AP) This image provided by Nathan ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells ...

For a very long time, we have been under the impression that memory and learning are solely the brain’s forte. Central to this belief is the fact that our brains, particularly our brain cells, store ...

Steve Gschmeissner / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Fat cells have a “memory” of obesity, which may help explain why it’s so difficult to maintain weight loss, according to a new ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such as ciliates and amoebae, as well as the cells in our own bodies, could ...

2 Limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) is a sight-threatening condition resulting in corneal opacity due to damage to the corneal surface from infections, immune disorders, chemicals, burns, or other ...

If your red blood cell count is low, there are things you can do to increase it, like boosting your nutrition, taking supplements, and getting medical treatment for underlying health conditions. Your ...

How epithelial cell behaviors are coordinately regulated to sculpt tissue architecture is a fundamental question in biology. Kupffer’s vesicle (KV), a transient organ with a fluid-filled lumen, ...

In this study, we established a panel of proliferative epithelial cells expressing multiple fluorescent biosensors to enable detailed tracking of single-cell metabolic responses. We first used ...