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 ...

Each cell with a nucleus contains chromosomes, which are made from DNA Human body cells each contain 23 pairs of chromosomes, half of which are from each parent. So, human gametes (eggs and sperm ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The nucleus of each human body cell contains 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains about 1000 genes. There is ...