When a user pulls the string, the structure moves smoothly into its final 3D form. If the user releases the string, the ...

The findings also offer clues about early animal evolution. Placozoa resemble some of the earliest animals on Earth, which ...

A new manufacturing technique called "3D necroprinting" repurposes mosquito proboscises as biodegradable nozzles for 3D ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Tears seem simple, but the tiny glands that produce them are among the least understood organs in the human body. By growing ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

Scientists and regulators have long acknowledged the weaknesses in traditional methods used to identify drugs that may harm ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...

With a five-year survival rate of less than 5%, glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer. Until now, all available treatments, including immunotherapy—which involves ...

Researchers at the Eye Genetics Research Unit at Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) are the first in the world to use stem cells to study one of the genetic causes of Leber Congenital ...

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...