An adult human body consists of some 37 trillion cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types.

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

As recently as a few years ago, scientists thought there were only a few hundred distinct cell types, but new technologies ...

After years of controversy, stem cells are on the cusp of cures for conditions like epilepsy and type 1 diabetes.

the estimate for the entire body was thus 100 trillion bacteria. In 1977, Professor Savage's team compared this number to that of human cells (10 trillion), arriving at the now-famous ratio.

transforming into all the 200 or so kinds of cells that constitute a human body. Liver cells. Brain cells. Skin, bone, and nerve. The dream is to launch a medical revolution in which ailing organs ...

Scientists reveal how filopodia help cancer spread. The breakthrough could improve treatments that stop cancer cells from ...

But let's break that down. By the time I finish reading this sentence, 20 million new cells have just been replaced in your body. 20 million, in just a few seconds. Compound that over a lifetime ...

This figure accounts for 60% of glucose utilization (or 20% of the energy needs of the human body in the resting state). However, most remaining cell types in the human body have mitochondria ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned about the potential health implications of microplastics and nanoplastics entering ...