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

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, ...

Inside each cell of the human body are proteins that control which genes are expressed at the right place and time. However, ...

The idea that the human body completely regenerates itself every seven years is a widely shared “fact.” But how much truth is there to this claim? While the body is constantly renewing itself, the ...

The human body consists of around 50–100 trillion cells, which come in various types, each with its own function. Depending on their type, cells ensure that the body operates smoothly.

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialised tissue of the cardiac ...

To count the number of cells in the human body, Ian Hatton at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany and his colleagues analysed over 1500 scientific papers ...