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

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.

A new analysis of more than 1,500 papers and 60 types of tissue has revealed the total number of cells in the human body. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

To count the number of cells in the human body, Ian Hatton at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany and his colleagues analysed over 1500 scientific papers ...

Total cell mass does not equal total body mass, because bodies also include large volumes of water. Credit: Jen Christiansen; “The Human Cell Count and Size Distribution,” by Ian A. Hatton et ...

The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium was founded in 2016 with the aim to build a biological atlas of every cell in the human body. Since the release of its white paper in 2017, the consortium has ...

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 ...