Scientists are exploring that futuristic vision by using special 3-D printers to make living body parts. Called bioprinters, these machines use human cells as “ink.” A standard 3-D printer ...

However, until this year, the 'human parts list' was still incomplete. We often forget that every gene, every protein and every cell is composed of even smaller parts – namely metabolites.

“We assumed that other parts of the brain would be similar to the cortex, but the organization and the cell types present were actually very ... such as scaling up efforts to chart nonhuman primates ...

Each of our bodies is a collective organism of living human cells and microbes working in cooperation to create what our minds view as “life.” However, a growing number of new studies have ...

A Bengaluru startup in pursuit of the Holy Grail—printing an actual organ like a heart, liver, or kidney. Organ rejection ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis in thick muscle tissues, and the challenge of integrating biological ...

Only a few universities nationwide, including the University of Southern California and Harvard, offer courses that allow ...

This atlas combines single-cell transcriptomic, epigenomic and spatial transcriptomic characterization of more than 32 million cells across all parts of ... motor cortex of human, macaque ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New subtypes of fat cells have been identified in human fat tissues, revealing more complex functions than previously known. Differences in intercellular ...

STEM CELLS ARE found in most parts of the body and can be used to ... as embryonic stem cells are taken from early-stage human embryos, according to the Mayo Clinic. The National Institutes ...

which could substantially advance research on germ cells. Future research could allow scientists to create sperm and eggs from skin, blood and other human body parts and fertilize eggs with sperm ...