University of Virginia scientists discover new cell organelle called "hemifusome" that helps manage cellular recycling.

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Imagine you open up the hood of your car and take a look inside. You see an engine, the battery, various fluid reservoirs; ...

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 ...

The hugely ambitious project of mapping the estimated 37.2 trillion cells of the human body is close to reaching a historic milestone – the first draft of the 'atlas.' We got a glimpse at what's ...

Scientists have grown kidneys containing mostly human cells inside pig embryos, an important step toward growing kidneys and potentially other human organs that could be used for transplants in ...

We’re closer than ever to mapping the entire brain to the microscopic level. Hundreds of neuroscientists across the world recently characterized more than 3,000 human brain cell types as part of ...

Human stem cells have the ability to develop into any other type of human cell. Getty Images/iStockphoto. The embryo models included a placenta, a yolk sac, ...

Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study.. A team at ...

Called the Human Cell Breast Atlas, the open-source guide contains biological data on all the cells present in mammary tissue. A paper on the development was published June 28 in Nature.

Since the international Human Cell Atlas — which is working to track all human cells across the lifespan — was involved, the kidney atlas and accompanying data is public and open source.