The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

Your body is like a busy city with construction crews working every day. These crews are your stem cells. They fix damage, ...

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have ...

In general, human cells had more upregulated genes compared to chimpanzees. This is a much larger percentage than researchers found when they couldn't break down the analysis by cell type.

Chronic inflammation occurs when the immune system is stuck in attack-mode, sending cell after cell to defend and repair 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.

A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...

Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every ...

Eight years on from the formation of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which set out with the hugely ambitious task of mapping the entire human body – around 37.2 trillion cells ...

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

But in general, human-specific cell types are rare. The overall impression, when comparing the cell types of the human brain with other species, is one of similarity.