For the past seven years, researchers around the world have been carefully mapping all the types, genes and proteins of every cell in the human body. Called the Human Cell Atlas, the project aims to ...

The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you alive. The smallest of these cells, like platelets and red blood ...

Combining single-cell data with maps of tissue structure can be slow and tedious. In addition, machine learning algorithms may be limited by the data used to train them. To overcome these challenges, ...

Nikon's Small World competition recognizes the best microscope photographs of the year. Microscopy is an art and a science, revealing the alien beauty of the hidden world all around us. The 2022 ...

In a recent article published in the Science journal, researchers demonstrated tissue-specific immune cell characteristics in humans by performing cross-tissue immune cell evaluation. Study: ...

Scientists have created a set of real -- and really tiny -- human organs on a chip, both genetically and physically linked like the human body. Columbia Engineering / SWNS The future of life-saving ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to make a soft, stretchy plastic that can carry electricity efficiently—an advance that could help improve devices implanted in the human body, such as pacemakers, ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...