Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body ...

Researchers are studying why the energy factories are moving between cells and whether the process can be harnessed to treat ...

We have developed highly efficient strategies to coax human pluripotent stem cells into specific brain cell populations in a dish. Specific types of nerve cells that are routinely generated in the lab ...

Allman was searching for a peculiar kind of brain cell that he suspects ... to occur in parts of the human brain that process sensations and social emotions. Illustration by Guilbert Gates John ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. "We know each of the ...

A human cell contains 46 chromosomes. To simplify our illustration, we'll show only four. Though the genetic code of a human being is contained within 46 chromosomes, only half of this number ...

In the beginning, one cell becomes two, and two become four. Being fruitful, they multiply into a ball of many cells, a shimmering sphere of human potential. Scientists have long dreamed of ...

When cells express specific genes that characterise a certain type of cell we say that a cell has ... These changes are known as mutations. Human genomics The human genome is made from DNA.