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

The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells, and researchers are mapping out where every one of those cells lives. Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international ...

The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle single-cell data. Four scientists reflect on how the project is ...

Researchers from Japan and France have successfully reconstituted the development of mouse egg cells, known as oocytes, from ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new method using an engineered reverse transcriptase enables high-throughput, accurate mapping of tRNA modifications and expression in human cells.

With the fly wiring diagram, we have the potential for an unprecedented, detailed, and deep understanding,” said co-corresponding study author Sebastian Seung, a professor at Princeton University. The ...

Related: Most detailed human brain map ever contains 3,300 cell types Aviv Regev, a founding co-chair of the HCA, compared the advance to leaps in traditional cartography.Imagine going from having ...