The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells, and researchers are mapping out where every one of those cells lives. Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international ...

Cell regeneration happens at night: a naturopath offers failsafe dinner recipes rich in antioxidants and nutrients to help ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

We all carry cells from other individuals within us. This discovery, which affects all species with a placenta, is called microchimerism.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have developed a remarkable new way for making human body cells behave like egg cells—a technique that could change the course of the future of ...

AN ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through microscopes ...

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body’s estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

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