Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better ...

Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers examined the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, establishing a quantitative framework and uncovering ...

At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless sheet of cells folds into a living blueprint for the body, a ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the ...

There are many kinds of T cells, and they play different parts in defending the body. Some T cells kill infected cells, ...

Scientists report that the ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

Model recapitulates key physiological features of native endosteal niches, and could aid in the study of blood formation in both healthy and diseased conditions.

“Our research provides scientists with a powerful new tool to understand how cells communicate through the ‘breadcrumb trails ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.