The Human Cell Atlas will, in short, turn the human body into terra far less incognita than it previously was, and make it much easier to mend when it goes wrong. It will, in other words, carry on ...

Each human cell thus contains 46 chromosomes in 23 pairs. The gametes or ovum produced by the female ovaries and the sperm produced by the male testicles, however, contain only 23 chromosomes.

So 23 of your 46 chromosomes come from a parent egg cell, and the other 23 come from a parent sperm cell. Scientists number the first 22 of these pairs 1 through 22. These are known as autosomal ...

A controversial project that aims to create the building blocks of human life has started. It was previously thought creating ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease, with the ...

The human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 ...

A study published in PNAS provides a comprehensive look at the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, drawing from over 1,500 sources and identifying around 400 unique ...

Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international research consortium, have profiled 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people around the world. Working in over 100 countries, the ...

The Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG) Project, launched on the 25th anniversary of the mapping of the human genome, is being ...

Scientists found that healthy women can carry genetic changes in their breast cells that are thought to be characteristic of ...