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 ...

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way to communicate peril. They just use a long, slow 'scream', rather than the ...

Scientists have found a way to study early embryonic development without real embryos. Using CRISPR, they programmed stem cells to self-organize into structures mimicking early embryos. The cells show ...

Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid' robots powered by ...

Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Dr. Jack Hartnell explores how societies at the time understood the human body, and ...

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

Fast-evolving DNA gives human neurons greater complexity than chimps, aiding cognition but also increasing disease risk. A ...

An Australian start-up has launched the "first commercialised biological computer" made of human brain cells at a conference ... why not use the parts — neurons — to achieve the same goal?

If we can use this knowledge to develop vaccines using the parts of the virus that T cells recognize, we might be able to protect ourselves from future flu mutations." Currently, human influenza ...

New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

Now, researchers from Yale have found that a specific bacterium, called Enterococcus gallinarum, can move from the gut to ...

The human body is one of the most complex and fascinating machines ever studied, yet there’s still so much we don’t ...