“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

The growth of new segments (body parts) in marine worms is controlled ... which are also used in modern medicine to produce stem cells from differentiated human cells, also play a role here ...

Another addition to the list of body parts that have been grown in the ... The 3D model contained cells that line human blood vessels, along with the physical framework that supports them.

a consortium of scientists (co-led by Teichmann as part of the as part of the Human Cell Atlas project) analysed around 70,000 cells from the placenta and lining of the womb from women who had ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

E. histolytica was actually taking bites out of human cells. Peering through the microscope, “You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” she said. Those ingested cell ...

LINE-1 retrotransposons, or "jumping genes," can infiltrate the human genome by binding to DNA during cell division, when the nuclear envelope temporarily breaks down.