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 ...
A genetic mutation commonly found in cancer patients may also affect how the human body develops in the womb, according to ...
Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a study finds, furthering the understanding of the possible effects of ...
NASA's AVATAR study will send Emulate organ chips containing human cells on the Artemis II mission to study how deep space ...
A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...
Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how ...
"This discovery shows that the body has a built-in backup plan. GLP-1 is simply a much more powerful signal for beta cells ...
Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how fibroblasts go ‘rogue’ in many different diseases affecting multiple organs – ...