Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Though contested, imperfect and ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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A new look at the human brain is beginning to reveal the inner lives of its cellular residents. The human brain holds a dizzying collection of diverse cells, and no two brains are the same, cellularly ...

Once the role and function of hemifusomes have been confirmed through further studies, they may be recognized as their own class of intermediate structures that fulfill part of fusion processes in ...

The human body is eerily similar to a complex machine, with countless delicate parts. These parts range from the tiniest of cells to our limbs, eyes, kidneys, and brains. These parts have slowly ...

Things in Dr. Anthony Atala’s lab at Wake Forest University are not always what they seem. On one lab bench, surrounded by gutted printer cartridges, lie the inner workings of an inkjet printer. But ...

Your body rests when you sleep, but your brain stays surprisingly active. Dreams and nightmares are signs that the mind is ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...