Pioneered by the Human Cell Atlas consortium, our understanding of the human body is about to be transformed – and with it, the way we treat and prevent disease
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Cell cultures have shown promise in representing diseases. The Petri dish is not as different from a sick person as one might think.
Fat cells and cancer cells talk to each other. Specialists in both systems can do the same.
New research finds that ‘leaky mitochondria’ help keep sea otters warm.
Life-extension therapies may be coming sooner than you think.
Observing the progression of an infection in real-time allows us to better understand how antibiotic resistance develops.
Nanodiamonds aren’t just cellular bling: they could be used to better understand the development of cancer in our cells.
It’s the part of coronavirus that helps the virus get into your cells – and also the target of the leading vaccines.
Healing is a complicated process. As people age, higher rates of disease and the fact that old cells lose the ability to divide slow this process down.
Our cells may be small, but they are mighty. And they are made of lots of amazing stuff, from the DNA that tells your body how to grow, to mini skeletons that let cells move around.
We wanted to find out which biological phenomena are crucial for pattern formation and which are just incidental. These sorts of questions can be answered with mathematical modelling.
Online sleuthing and deductive reasoning identifies what appears to be the only existent portrait painted of the celebrated scientist during his lifetime.
Air traffic controllers have to process and manage large amounts of information to get airplanes to their destinations. The brain manages the incessant traffic of neurons in a similar fashion.
A molecule responsible for lowering our blood pressure also helps coronavirus get into our cells and replicate. And it occurs more in men than in women.
Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University found that variations in genes that code for parts of the cellular alarm system might play a role in how well people fight off COVID-19.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, identified nine existing drugs that show promise to treat COVID-19. The proteins they target haven’t been tried before.
Our bodies are made up of cells that multiply to repair our organs. But organs like our liver and skin are better at regeneration than our brain.
What is the smell of sweat? An artist recreates the pungent body odor as an art installation.
A battery’s power comes from a chemical reaction that happens inside the cell.
Cilia appear on nearly every cell in the body and their presence (or lack of) can drastically change our health.
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