When cells express specific genes that characterise ... These changes are known as mutations. Human genomics The human genome is made from DNA. The gene portion codes for proteins and non-coding ...

Being fruitful, they multiply into a ball of many cells, a shimmering sphere of human potential. Scientists have long dreamed of plucking those naive cells from a young human embryo and coaxing ...

More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ...

(This takes into account that human cells, unlike chimpanzee cells, have two copies of the genome.) If two different people started reciting their individual genetic code at a rate of one letter ...

It's common knowledge that our brains—and, specifically, our brain cells—store memories. But a team of scientists has ...