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 ...

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 types ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Our bodies certainly are busy. All the different structures in us working together to achieve the ...

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What does our body do? The human body has different parts that help us do things like walk, talk, eat, and see. Just like a car has different parts, such as wheels and windows, our bodies also have ...

When we sleep, the body releases its 'growth hormone', building up and repairing muscles and bones – but the details of how ...

The treatment supercharges the body’s immune system to kill a kind of skin cancer, opening the door to targeting more common tumors After undergoing surgery, radiation and three different therapies, ...