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 ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

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.

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 ...

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

Invade neighbouring tissues and can spread to other parts of the body in the bloodstream. As the tumour grows, cancer cells may fail to attach to each other, spreading through the body where they ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

Whether farmed for meat or used as subjects in medical research, animals are deeply sentient beings, whose suffering remains ...

which could substantially advance research on germ cells. Future research could allow scientists to create sperm and eggs from skin, blood and other human body parts and fertilize eggs with sperm ...