Scientists are exploring that futuristic vision by using special 3-D printers to make living body parts. Called bioprinters, these machines use human cells as “ink.” A standard 3-D printer ...

A high-resolution spatial map of the human hypothalamus makes it possible to identify specific cells, determine their exact ...

Invade neighbouring tissues and can spread to other parts of the body in the bloodstream. As the tumour grows, cancer cells may fail to attach to each other, spreading through the body where they ...

When cells express specific genes that characterise ... These changes are known as mutations. Human genomics The human genome is made from DNA. The gene portion codes for proteins and non-coding ...

Sarah Teichmann and Aviv Regev, co-founders of the Human Cell Atlas, discuss the latest research from the consortium, published by the Nature Portfolio as part of a new collection. They will ...

which could substantially advance research on germ cells. Future research could allow scientists to create sperm and eggs from skin, blood and other human body parts and fertilize eggs with sperm ...

The ear and the nose are squishy and stretchy thanks in part to ‘bubble wrap’ cells ... in many mammals and have been grown from human stem cells— are fully described for the first time ...