Kanazawa University, have discovered how a protein called lamin A helps repair the protective barrier around a cell's DNA.

Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter have discovered a new ...

The skin was able to generate this immune response even when lymph nodes — the immune hubs that help to activate immune cells ...

A basic function of cells is that they act in response to their environments. It makes sense, then, that a goal of scientists ...

A precancerous cell is a cell with certain abnormalities that makes it more likely to become cancerous. These abnormalities don't mean that it will become cancer—in fact, most don't—but the diagnosis ...

A significant surge in ringworm cases among men visiting barbers has prompted a hygiene warning. The popularity of skin fade haircuts and the proliferation of "cheap, dirty unqualified barbershops ...

(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 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 ...

Steve Gschmeissner / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Fat cells have a “memory” of obesity, which may help explain why it’s so difficult to maintain weight loss, according to a new ...

Central to this belief is the fact that our brains, particularly our brain cells, store memories. However, an innovative team of researchers begs to differ, suggesting that cells in other parts of the ...