Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

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

The new scientific concept of Bodyoids involves human-like bodies grown from stem cells without brains or consciousness.

The cells on the inside layer of this very early embryo can make all of the cell types needed in your body ... Plants have stem cells too. They're found at the meristems, the growing tips of ...

Progress towards 3D-printed organs has been slow due to challenges like vascularization and cell viability. 3D bioprinting ...

As you age you naturally lose neurons and muscle mass and experience a decline in fertility and wound healing ability.

Using lasers to regenerate and grow body parts sounds like science ... the journal Science Translational Medicine. Stem cells exist throughout the body, and they fascinate scientists because ...

Psilocybin is the well-known active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms, which is converted in the body ... stem cells) for their experiments. This makes it possible to grow functional nerve ...

They warn of a brave new world of "embryo farms" and "cloning mills" for the cultivation of human spare parts ... Embryonic stem cells can be trained to grow into heart muscle cells that, even ...

A growing body of work suggests ... Each of us starts life as a single cell. To develop into a complex, multicellular being, that cell must divide, and then those cells must divide again, and again — ...

The sequential addition of growth factors triggered the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into non-neural ... the characteristics of other body parts and could shed new light on ...