In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...
In The Matrix, human beings are a literal (and metaphorical) power source – specifically, they supply bio-electricity to our ...
In laboratories, some are cultivating human brain cells to transform them into biological circuits for supercomputers—a ...
Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase, the HCA is ...
Scientists have discovered that human stomach cells can be genetically reprogrammed to act like pancreatic beta cells and ...
Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...
Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood ...
New live-cell imaging data show that Telomir-1 markedly lowers intracellular iron levels at submicromolar concentrations in ...
The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...
A leading bioethicist at Hiroshima University is calling for an anticipatory, rather than reactive, approach to ethics after ...