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

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Scientists are learning how to revive faltering human cells by loading them with fresh power plants, effectively repairing ...

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, the HCA is ...

Scientists have found that human hair growth does not grow by being pushed out of the root; it's actually pulled upward by a ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

Our cells are continually being exposed to environmental assaults. For instance, skin is exposed to pollutants and UV radiation. Our lungs are subject to environmental stimuli such as smoke ...

UCSF’s Program in Craniofacial Biology (PCB) brings together researchers to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...