An initiative partly funded by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has moved further towards its goal of producing a 'human cell atlas' (HCA) to map every cell type in the human body.

Neurodegenerative diseases affect more than 57 million people globally. The incidence of these diseases, from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's to ALS and beyond, is expected to double every 20 years. Though ...

A new human lung ageing atlas reveals cell-specific changes, mutation buildup, and declining lung repair capacity linked to ...

Developing new medications can take years. But computational biologist Aviv Regev says AI-powered cell mapping is transforming the... How the Human Cell Atlas is fast-tracking new medicines Part 1 of ...

The Human Cell Atlas project has delivered a fresh tranche of data mapping fibroblasts in healthy and diseased skin and pointing to drug targets with potential in multiple diseases across a range of ...

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) aimed to cure or prevent all diseases by the end of the century. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are giving this ambition fresh momentum, with the ...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are the seventh-most prevalent form of cancer and are associated with human papilloma virus infection (HPV-positive) or with tobacco and alcohol use (HPV ...

Researchers uncover how distinct cell populations and fibrotic signals drive permanent scarring after rotator cuff ...