Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and knowing what all the cells do can help scientists better ...

A New York University study has found that kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells. According to the study authors, their findings could help researchers better ...

The Human Cell Atlas is yielding detailed maps of human tissues and systems throughout life, along with methods to handle single-cell data. Four scientists reflect on how the project is transforming ...

Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human cells stop multiplying for ...

Winter has returned, so is the flu season accompanied by flu, fever, aching limbs and runny nose,that has forced scientists ...

Scientists have finally watched influenza viruses break into living human cells in real time, catching the microscopic ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Most of them come from a subset of viruses called retroviruses, which infect host cells and then trick them into making the proteins that they need to replicate. Occasionally, a retrovirus will embed ...

CAR T-cell therapy has the potential to revolutionise how we treat certain types of cancer by genetically engineering someone’s own immune cells to attack the disease – but it is also cumbersome and ...

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