Most of the cells in our bodies don't move—they stay where they're supposed to in service to our organs and biological ...

A simple question deserves a simple answer. How many cells are in your body? Unfortunately, your cells can’t fill out census forms, so they can’t tell you themselves. And while it’s easy ...

In plain terms, our bodies begin making new fat cells at ... but middle-aged mice showed an explosion of fat cell creation. Over 80% of fat cells in the belly region of 12-month-old mice (roughly ...

Imagine tiny fists punching their way through your body. For some cancer patients, this may be the reality. Melanoma cells can mechanically tunnel their way through tissue using fleshy membrane ...

“When things go wrong, they go wrong with our cells first and foremost," said Aviv Regev, co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas consortium who was involved with the research. The findings were ...

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

The co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas consortium, Ariv Regev from the Biotech company Genentech, said this is an improvement from our previous understanding of our cells. She compares it to how ...