Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

One of the ultimate goals of biological research is to understand the multiscale organization of the human cell and its relationship to biological function and human disease. As much of cell ...

This work has enabled them to pinpoint potential new targets for cancer therapy. The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to ...

Human cell models may never be as good as the real thing, but we need these models to be as close as possible to understand how diseases develop and progress, and whether treatments are effective.