This video explains the stages of mitosis, contrasts them with meiosis and the creation of haploid gametes, and concludes by ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cells in the human brain, according to the latest ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

AN ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through microscopes ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch. Comparisons between humans, mice and macaques show both similarities and ...

Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments. However, ...

Constructing and mining gene regulatory network are crucial for explaining biological phenomena such as cell differentiation and cell fate, and can even be used to discover the immune escape pathways ...

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

Learn how a blood-based aging test connected youthful brain-support cells with lower genetic risk and older muscle cells with ...