The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

The hugely ambitious project of mapping the estimated 37.2 trillion cells of the human body is close to reaching a historic milestone – the first draft of the 'atlas.' We got a glimpse at what's ...

A new organelle has been discovered in human cells — and scientists call it a "hemifusome."Like the full-size organs in our ...

The claim: Photo shows the most detailed model of human cell to date. A colorful, intricate diagram circulating on social media is being presented as a groundbreaking picture of a human cell.

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

Compared to molecular techniques to study single cells, images feel a little like “old school biology,” says Anne ... the Human Cell Atlas published its first draft — a map of over a million ...

Human stem cells have the ability to develop into any other type of human cell. Getty Images/iStockphoto. The embryo models included a placenta, a yolk sac, ...

Human cells hacked to act like squid skin cells could unlock key to camouflage ... They took detailed time-lapse images of the nanoparticles' properties using a technique called holotomography.

But existing bans on human reproductive cloning in at least 45 countries would likely prevent such a test from being conducted on models formed from stem cells.

This isn’t the first brain cell atlas, and it won’t be the last. But it is incredibly detailed. The 21-study collection reports the findings of the BRAIN Initiative’s last five-year funding ...