Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

Every pregnancy depends on an organ that most people will never see. As organs go, the placenta — the tissue that surrounds a developing fetus — is a jack of all trades. It can filter toxins like a ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease, with the ...

Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half-century, according ...

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 ...

Base editing in human embryos reveals that NANOG is the one gene required to form every body tissue. Cambridge’s landmark ...

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 ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease, with the ...