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Biologists have long suspected that aging is not just a slow, inevitable fraying of our cells but a process governed by ...

This breakthrough represents a big step toward creating animal hybrids capable of growing human-compatible organs, easing the ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase, the HCA is ...

The human small intestine absorbs nutrients while protecting us from potentially harmful microbes. One of the cell types that ...

Eight years on from the formation of the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium, which set out with the hugely ambitious task of mapping the entire human body – around 37.2 trillion cells – scientists ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

Tiny structures inside your cells keep your body alive by turning food into fuel. These structures, called mitochondria, ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease ...

To settle lingering health fears, scientists blasted human skin cells with intense 5G signals to see if the radiation does any damage. Reading time 2 minutes More research has confirmed that, no, ...