The hugely ambitious project of mapping the estimated 37.2 trillion cells of the human body is close to reaching a historic milestone – the first draft of the 'atlas.' We got a glimpse at what's ...

It is the most detailed image of a human cell to date, obtained via radiography, nuclear MRI, and cryoelectronic microscopy." As we'll explain below, that description is completely inaccurate.

Researchers have identified ways in which chemotherapy can damage healthy cells and found that some drugs can add decades of ...

Image source: filin174/Adobe. ... By being able to prolong the amount of time that the human blood cells could be cooled, these people could hibernate until their treatment is available.

"Understanding how blood stem cells develop over time in species with a different lifespan to humans is invaluable knowledge that we can use when considering the evolution of human blood cells and ...

Microscope image of the miniature fallopian tube growing in a lab dish. (Image credit: MPI f. Infection Biology) In 2015, scientists used stem cells in a lab dish to grow the innermost cellular ...

Compared to molecular techniques to study single cells, images feel a little like “old school biology,” says Anne Carpenter, an artificial intelligence and cell biology researcher at the Broad ...

Know your enemy, know yourself. It's a centuries-old strategy. But even in the present-day war against cancer, achieving it remains elusive. In many cases, cancer cells blend in with healthy ones ...