The scope was placed on the back of a torso and imaging was performed from the front of the body, adding a human palm for extra depth. The camera took 17 seconds to generate an accurate image ...

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.

→ Mapping cells to build a complete atlas of the human body; From the February 22nd 2020 edition. Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents.

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 ...

Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there are thousands of cell types, with some appearing to be culprits in diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and cystic fibrosis.

A project to describe every cell in the human body would have been unrealistic just a few years ago. But international scientists meeting in London Friday said they believe this vast undertaking ...