NASA's AVATAR study will send Emulate organ chips containing human cells on the Artemis II mission to study how deep space ...

By studying what other creatures can already achieve, researchers hope to uncover breakthroughs in human medicine and turn ...

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with ...

Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...

Scientists at the University of North Texas report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown replicas of human organs.

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of ...

Budding surgeons may soon train on stretchy, lifelike 3D-printed skin that oozes out blood and pus when cut.

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were recently caught discussing whether organ transplants could help a person live forever. The ...

Artificial tissues that mimic the placenta, endometrium, ovary and vagina could point to treatments for common conditions ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

Animal studies say rapamycin can slow aging – but does it work in humans? A new review finds the evidence for the off-label, ...

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are joining a national collaboration to launch the Whole Person Physiome Research and Coordination Center (WPP-RCC), ...