Coming less than a decade after its launch, the studies emerging from the global project are a major achievement. Funders ...

They provide essential tools and examples of how cell atlases can be built at large scale. Taken together, these studies ...

Scientists from around the world are making headway in compiling a Human Cell Atlas -- a deep dive into the myriad types of ...

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 ...

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Monkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed. The research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked fresh debate into the ethics of such experiments.

Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of biology’s greatest challenges — and one in which scientists say they just made ...