An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 ...

The Human Cell Atlas project maps human cells to understand biology, address global health disparities, and advance ...

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium has published over 40 studies revealing groundbreaking insights into human biology ...

Georgios Skiniotis, PhD, to develop and lead new center focusing on advanced imaging techniques, including cryo-ET.

DNA is typically found within chromosomes, but certain tumors store cancer-promoting genes outside of chromosomes as ...

A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The ...

New advances allow scientists to study DNA, RNA, and gene activity in individual cells rather than in bulk tissue samples.

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, ...

The idea is to create a kind of “cellular ID” for each profile, identifying the proteins they produce, how they function, and how cells communicate within tissues, all captured in intricate, navigable ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

University of Chicago scientists have expanded our understanding of snoRNAs, discovering their extensive influence on ...

Researchers explain how individual cells are capable of rudimentary forms of learning previously thought exclusive to ...