One small compartment inside the nucleus has come into focus with regards to aging: the nucleolus. Its main job is simple and ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Scientists have discovered that human stomach cells can be genetically reprogrammed to act like pancreatic beta cells and ...

In The Matrix, human beings are a literal (and metaphorical) power source – specifically, they supply bio-electricity to our ...

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase, the HCA is ...

The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood ...

In laboratories, some are cultivating human brain cells to transform them into biological circuits for supercomputers—a ...

New live-cell imaging data show that Telomir-1 markedly lowers intracellular iron levels at submicromolar concentrations in ...

The “Towards a Human Exposome–Cell Atlas” webinar marks the launch of a new UNESCO–Human Cell Atlas–Global Exposome Forum ...