Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...
Every person walking the planet carries roughly 37 trillion cells, and nearly every one of those cells holds an identical ...
Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than ...
For decades, biology textbooks and popular science writing repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body ...
A research consortium has established a new framework to identify and catalog senescent cells—cells that stop dividing but remain active in the body. Because senescent cells accumulate with age and ...
Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...
Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an unprecedentedly detailed view of healthy human skin, revealing cellular ...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is the cause of AIDS, is a master of deception, using just nine genes to hijack the complex cellular machinery of the human body. Yet, even after decades ...