Researchers at Stanford University have proposed a concept that could transform modern medicine: lab-grown human “bodyoids” ...

Lab-grown "bodyoids" could transform medical research and organ transplants, but raise ethical questions about defining human ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical ...

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 ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

Scientists have spotted unique subtypes of fat cells in the human body, and by unraveling their functions, they found that the cells may play a role in obesity. "Finding these [fat] subtypes is ...

The human body is, in many ways, like a finetuned machine. But, as Cohen sang, “you can add up the parts, you won’t have the sum.” Understanding how the interstitium works will define more of the ...