A precancerous cell is a cell with certain abnormalities that makes it more likely to become cancerous. These abnormalities don't mean that it will become cancer—in fact, most don't—but the diagnosis ...

Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells that are present in multiple tissues, including umbilical cord, bone marrow and fat tissue. Mesenchymal stem cells can self-renew by ...

If you haven’t looked for a new cell phone plan in a while, you may be paying a price for your loyalty—or inertia. In a recent survey of nearly 52,000 Consumer Reports members, more than ...

cells and fewer goblet cells than proximally, and then progresses with further branching to a nonciliated, simple, cuboidal epithelium lacking both goblet cells and submucosal glands, in the ...

Up until recently, habituation — a simple form of learning — was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a new ...

Popular Vote (popV) is a simple, ensemble popular vote approach for cell type annotation in single-cell omic data, flexibly incorporating various methods in an open-source Python framework.

For a very long time, we have been under the impression that memory and learning are solely the brain’s forte. Central to this belief is the fact that our brains, particularly our brain cells, store ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. The human body contains around 36 trillion to 37 trillion cells ...

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 ...

Up until recently, habituation—a simple form of learning—was deemed ... offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such as ciliates and amoebae, as well as the cells ...

Get more HMS news here Up until recently, habituation — a simple form of learning — was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, ...

The disease gets its name because when you have SCD, your red blood cells look like a sickle, which is a C-shaped farm tool. Normal red blood cells are round and pliable. With sickle cell ...