Just like your body has a skeleton, every cell in your body has a skeleton—a cytoskeleton to be precise. This provides cells with mechanical resilience, as well as assisting with cell division. To ...

An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.

Columbia researchers created an AI model that predicts gene activity in any human cell, advancing disease research and ...

Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

Researchers are transforming stem cells into mini-brains that learn and adapt, merging biology and technology for a more ...

When cells express specific genes that characterise ... These changes are known as mutations. Human genomics The human genome is made from DNA. The gene portion codes for proteins and non-coding ...

Proteins called "S" form spikes that extend from the surface and grab onto a human cell ... antigens that belong to the real virus. Antigen-presenting cells grab them and provide them to helper ...

"I think the United States is in real danger of being left behind ... became the first in the U.K. to grow colonies of human embryonic stem cells, and his nine-person staff is poised to nearly ...

In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...