Researchers catalogue more than 3,000 different types of cell in our most complex organ. The enormous cell atlas offers a detailed snapshot of the most complex known organ. “It’s highly significant,” ...

A Dartmouth study published in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process ...

To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. More than 1.5 billion years ago, a momentous thing happened: Two small, primitive cells became one. Perhaps more than any event—barring the ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in human cells. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The average human cell contains roughly 10,000 different proteins. Existing as several to millions of copies in each cell, proteins mediate all manner of tasks, including chemical transformations, ...

Cell death is a fundamental physiological process that all organisms undergo and is crucial for organ maintenance, autoimmunity, and embryonic development. Some of the different types of programmed ...

In an interview with Targeted Oncology, George Mulligan, PhD, discussed the key takeaways from analysis of the Immune Atlas ...