The gastrointestinal tract atlas, which includes the tissues of the mouth ... finally understood that cells were the fundamental unit of the human body. Unlike the original draft human genome ...

Imagine seeing your body from the inside out, a hidden world where more than 30 trillion cells are constantly renewing and regenerating to keep you alive. Men typically have around 36 trillion cells, ...

A team of biomedical researchers led by Michael Mak, Ph.D., in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, ...

Increasingly, however, researchers are wondering if there is a whole-body memory ... experiments on two types of human non-brain cells: cells collected from nerve tissue and cells collected ...

Age affects every type of body tissue, including skin, muscles, bone, and more. Learn about the specific effects of aging on ...

Life runs on information. In living systems, that information takes two main forms: the genome and the epigenome.

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite. In 2014, she published her initial findings in Nature on the process, known ...

If scientists can’t count all the cells in a human body, how can they estimate it ... and many other tissues. They then came up with estimates for the total number of each kind of cell.

They use human-induced pluripotent stem cells, which can morph into different ... The timeline will vary by body part. While all tissues are complex, obviously some are more challenging to ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body Illustration ... enter a new tissue. Even then, the cell may remain ...

Our tissue can serve as a “biophysical reservoir” for data processing, blurring the line between man and machine.