A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

The liver is one of the most important organs in the human body. It performs critical functions such as filtering blood, producing essential proteins, storing energy, and removing toxins. It also ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

Carnegie Mellon scientists create AggreBots, tiny lung-cell robots powered by cilia with controlled motility.Word excerpt: ...

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Microscale biological robots made from human lung cells are advancing in Carnegie Mellon's Ren lab, with new research showing ...

Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...

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New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...

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Scientists have mapped underappreciated scaffolding cells in skin, known as fibroblasts. They show for the first time how fibroblasts go 'rogue' in many different diseases affecting multiple organs – ...