Scientists say they want to starting growing human bodies, or "bodyoids," to "reduce animal testing, improve drug development ...

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.

Benign Grow slowly. Usually grow within a membrane, so can easily be removed. Do not invade other parts of the body. Malignant Grow quickly. Invade neighbouring tissues and can spread to other ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. What if you could press a button and a machine would make you a new nose or kidney? Scientists are exploring that ...

The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.

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The reputation of the new coronavirus for messing with scientists’ plans has taken a truly creepy turn. Researchers discovered that when Covid-19 infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish ...

Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.

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 ...

In a potential breakthrough for infertility and genetic disease treatments, scientists at Kyoto University have succeeded in mass-generating precursors to sperm and eggs from human iPS cells.