One example is single-cell RNA sequencing. Known as scRNA-seq, the technology has changed how researchers understand the diversity of cells within tissues by showing that individual cells can produce ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet has mapped how MAIT cells, which play an important role in the body's defense against microbes, exhibit different properties depending on the tissue they are in.

People's bodies can be old or young for their chronological age, depending, in part, on the amount and types of stressors they have experienced. Scientists can estimate people's biological age, but ...

A small piece of human brain tissue was placed inside newborn mice. Over the following months, it did something researchers had rarely been able to observe so directly. The human tissue grew. It ...

Dense breast tissue refers to the composition of a woman’s breasts in terms of the ratio of different types of tissue. The breast is made up of three main components: glandular tissue (which includes ...