Cell-free nucleic acid (cfNA) liquid biopsy offers a versatile, noninvasive alternative to needle biopsy procedures for the diagnosis or surveillance of a broad range of diseases and physiological ...

The human body contains ~27–37 trillion cells of up to 10,000 cell types (CTs) within a volume of ~62–120 liters (males) and 52–89 liters (females). The Human Reference Atlas (HRA) v2.3 provides a ...

Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an unprecedentedly detailed view of healthy human skin, revealing cellular ...

Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than the long, rigid rod seen in textbooks over the last half-century, according ...

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 technology ...

Multicellular life depends on remarkable acts of cooperation. Every cell in the human body must sense what is happening ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...