“Another exciting plan is to go back to well-characterized brain archives or brain sections of famous people, and recover ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

The human body contains an astonishing 36 to 37 trillion cells, each serving unique functions across organs and systems. In a groundbreaking initiative, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international ...

The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells, and researchers are mapping out where every one of those cells lives. Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international ...

While Alzheimer’s disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine recently joined a nationwide, NIH-funded initiative to develop the first comprehensive digital map of the healthy human body. The Whole Person Physiome ...

I’ve always believed in being proactive about my health, but like most people, I usually only see a doctor when something feels wrong or if I’m overdue for an annual exam. That changed when I learned ...