Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

A new analysis of more than 1,500 papers and 60 types of tissue has revealed the total number of cells in the human body. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A new international study led by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has characterized the populations of fat cells in various fat tissues in the human body. Using innovative ...

The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells, and researchers are mapping out where every one of those cells lives. Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international ...

To count the number of cells in the human body, Ian Hatton at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany and his colleagues analysed over 1500 scientific papers ...

Bacteria-killing viruses, called bacteriophages, are ubiquitous in the human body. Cells in our body ingest up to 30 billion phages each day, Barr estimates.

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

In the beginning, one cell becomes two, and two become four. Being fruitful, they multiply into a ball of many cells, a shimmering sphere of human potential. Scientists have long dreamed of ...

Scientists Map Out the Human Body One Cell at a Time 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 ...

While there was an outlier estimate of a colossal 200 million trillion cells in the human body, most of these estimates lay between 70,000 trillion and five trillion. That's still a range of ...