Recent studies reveal that individual cells possess the ability to learn, refuting the idea that complex learning behaviors ...

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

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better ...

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Australia’s vibrant biodiversity is hanging by a thread, but citizen scientists have stepped up with passion and purpose.

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

Ayurveda Biology seeks to apply modern evidence-based ... “Students need to be informed about the historical nature of the first component,” he said. The other serious limitation that he ...

In thinking about how to do this, it is interesting to compare Nature with simulated biology. Some things that are very difficult in Nature are trivial for computers: consider how much cellular ...

Four scientists reflect on how the project is transforming our understanding of human biology. As the international effort reaches a ‘critical mass’ of achievements, Nature highlights seven ...

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