All living things are made of cells which are differentiated ... of the circulatory system is essential for health. Blood transports substances around the body to every cell and removes toxic ...

Compare the number of mitochondria in muscle and skin cells. Why are there so many in muscle cells? What other cells will have a lot of mitochondria?

Specialized cells help to create a nurturing environment in which tumour-fighting immune cells can thrive and work to ...

Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

Scientists focused on certain organs — plotting the jobs of cells in the mouth, stomach and intestines, as well as cells that ...

Researchers looked at the types of cells, where they were located ... A similar study looked at the thymus – a small organ involved in training the immune system. Researchers showed this process ...

When a vertebrate embryo develops, a group of cells self-organizes into the neural tube, eventually becoming the brain and ...

Researchers looked at the types of cells, where they were located and how they chatted to the other ... A similar study ...

The Wistar Institute's Alessandro Gardini, Ph.D., and lab have shed new light on how certain biological processes determine ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by ...