Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

The human body is made up of trillions of cells that perform functions from skin protection to muscle movement. Cells can ...

A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies ...

The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Different parts of the brain perform a variety of functions, all of ...

The repair and regenerate abilities of our bodies gradually decreased with age. Imagine a bustling city where construction workers (stem cells) are constantly fixing and building new structures.

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

As described in research published today in Cell, the new model can be used to study the origin and function of the human amnion and help identify previously unknown ways the amniotic sac might ...

Researchers have developed a vascularized organoid model of hormone secreting cells in the pancreas. The advance promises to improve diabetes research and cell-based therapies. Researchers led by ...