It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...

Scientists have successfully immortalized lip cells, creating a clinically relevant lab model that enables testing of new ...

More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ...

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute ...

When cells express specific genes that characterise ... These changes are known as mutations. Human genomics The human genome is made from DNA. The gene portion codes for proteins and non-coding ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

A team has discovered how the human body creates skin from a stem cell, and even reproduced small amounts of skin in a lab.

Monkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed. The research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked fresh debate into the ethics of such experiments.

Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

In 2005, the National Academies released the book, Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, which offered a common set of ethical standards for a field that, due to the absence of ...