Think learning and memory are all the job of the brain? You might want to think again, if the results of a recent study are ...

Stem cells can fight disease from the inside out. But not all treatments are created equal. The promise of stem cell therapy ...

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They also offer fresh insights into how human memory, as a whole ... which is common not just across different animals, but across all cell types,” Kukushkin explains of his team’s new ...

Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more ... A challenge is that different types of cells can look morphologically indistinguishable under a microscope but can vary dramatically at the ...

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 ...

brain and skin — and describes the advanced computational tools needed to crunch all those data. Related: Most detailed human brain map ever contains 3,300 cell types Aviv Regev, a founding co ...

but they are also involved in cell signaling and death. Present in nearly all types of human cells, mitochondria are vital to survival. They generate the majority of our adenosine triphosphate ...

The human brain has roughly 171 billion cells, which makes it a herculean task to categorize them all. Scientists collected samples from different parts of the brain and have identified 3,000 ...