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

The wiring diagram and its supporting files amount to 1.6 petabytes’ worth of data. The map traces more than 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of tangled-up axons, the fibers that serve as the “wiring ...

Imagine you open up the hood of your car and take a look inside. You see an engine, the battery, various fluid reservoirs; ...

A schematic of brain cells and related diseases. The bottom graph shows cell type association with 19 neuropsychiatric disorders and traits; darker red indicates stronger associations.

Neuroscientists often think about the brain in terms of connections between cells, like a wiring diagram. ... what type of cell a neuron becomes—within more than a million human brain cells.

Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement ...

In a recent paper in the journal Nature, Ideker and his colleagues presented their latest attempt to fill this information gap: a fine-grained map of a human cell, showing the locations of more than 5 ...

This schematic shows how the small airsacs of the lung called alveoli, ... DAPI staining visualizes cell nuclei throughout the culture system, ... Schematic of the human Lung Alveolus Chip (IMAGE) ...

It is the most detailed image of a human cell to date, obtained via radiography, nuclear MRI, and cryoelectronic microscopy." As we'll explain below, that description is completely inaccurate.

In a new study, published today (12 July) in Nature, researchers have produced the most detailed and comprehensive human Heart Cell Atlas to date, including the specialised tissue of the cardiac ...

NUMBER AND AGGREGATE MASS OF CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY, BY CELL CLASS ... where she art directs and produces illustrated explanatory diagrams and data visualizations.