A Franco-British team of scientists has explored two human proteins recently identified as immune enzymes. Structural studies ...

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...

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Scientists grow headless organ systems from monkey cells to replace animal testing and potentially create replacement organs ...

The original “Doom” (1993) is one of the most influential video games of all time. It is also notorious for being able to run ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom ...

Cortical Labs uses human brain cells attached to silicon chips to create biological computers that could offer energy ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human 'lung-on-chip' model using stem cells taken from only one person. These chips simulate breathing motions and lung ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...