There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...
New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...
When you were first conceived, you were a single cell. From this basic fact, we can extrapolate a few things, most especially that all the cells that make up your body today came (indirectly) from ...
Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, ...
A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...
When a rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, infects the lining of our nasal passages, our cells work ...