By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in Lo ...

Audible sound can affect gene activity in mouse cells, boosting the attachment of muscle precursors to surrounding tissue and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Modern humans have existed for more than 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell—dividing, ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...