Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

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 ...

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 ...

Performing a feat of “human cartography” requires cutting-edge biology and computer science. The project so far has looked at more than 100 million cells – deeply analysing each individual ...