Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

Matthew Taylor likened his recently published work alongside doctoral student Gary Dunn to kicking over a rock. Once the ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and ...

THOUGH THEY'RE CURRENTLY only approved to treat a small group of diseases, researchers are exploring a whole world of ...

Trying to document how single brain cells participate in networks that govern behavior is a daunting task. Brain probes ...

This color-coded graphic shows different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted by one of the genetic tools developed by scientists at the Allen Institute and other institutions.

The research describes a novel and unusual mechanism for T cells to remember the pathogens and cancers that they had previously encountered. This immunological memory is crucial to the body’s immune ...