Nerves look blue in the reconstructed view of a genetically engineered mouse (left) whose neurons produce a fluorescent ...

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

You may wonder how many muscles you actually have in your body, but you might not know that there are three different types of muscle.

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.

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 ...

Being able to use a cell's size to estimate its frequency in the body could help doctors better understand certain body systems and hard-to-count cell types, the researchers say.

We now know how many cells there are in the human body New estimates for the number of cells in adults and children draw on over 1500 scientific papers detailing the different cell and tissue ...

The nervous system, essentially the body’s electrical wiring, is a complex collection of nerves and specialized cells known as neurons that transmit signals between different parts of the body ...