Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold ...

In the 16th century, when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy ... are now coming from studies of tissues and cells.” Over the last decade, there have been a handful of discoveries that ...

transforming into all the 200 or so kinds of cells that constitute a human body. Liver cells. Brain cells. Skin, bone, and nerve. The dream is to launch a medical revolution in which ailing organs ...

The DNA of human cells consists of a sequence of about 3.1 billion building blocks. Cells go to great lengths to maintain the ...

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

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 ...

Research by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists centers on RNA, a nucleic acid that plays a crucial role in most ...

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 ...

Every cell in the human body communicates with its environment and is involved in a larger network of interactions. Cells all have features that allow them to be recognised as part of their ...