When removed from the formerly obese mice and bathed in glucose and palmitate — high-sugar and fatty ingredients — the fat cells enlarged more quickly than those taken from control mice.

Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults. By Carl Zimmer Shortly after conception, a fertilized egg divides ...

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, or BPH, is another term used for an enlarged prostate which affects urination for most men as they age. It is a non-cancerous growth of the prostate gland that can ...

(Ana-Maria Cujba/Wellcome Sanger Institute via AP) This image provided by Nathan Richoz shows a T cell aggregate in a human trachea biopsy on July 12, 2021, at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells ...

AN ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through ...