Traditional robot bodies "are still monolithic, unadaptive, and unrecyclable," said paper author and mechanical engineer Hod ...

Genetics research reveals how diverse complex biological systems are. Diversity and collaboration make for more thorough and ...

Prima Mente today announced the launch of Pleiades, a family of large-scale foundation models created to understand the epigenomic and molecular landscape of human disease. Pleiades represents ...

The authors highlight key gut-on-a-chip devices and their success in simulating microbial and human cellular biology. They also describe current disease models and drug studies using the technology.

Scientists are now working on something once thought impossible — creating human DNA entirely from scratch using chemicals, not parents. This synthetic DNA, or synDNA, could unlock powerful treatments ...

As the quest to extend human lifespan gains momentum, a select group of scientists is pioneering efforts to reverse the aging process. Inside state-of-the-art laboratories, researchers are ...

Four teams have coaxed human stem cells to organize themselves into embryo-like forms. The advance could shed light on fertility. By Carl Zimmer In its first week, a fertilized human egg develops ...

Sarah Goodwin started the Science Communication Lab to create short and feature-length documentaries that demystify science through the power of film. A top award winner of the National Academies’ ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

What most people refer to as the “bone lab” is a physical anthropology lab that contains 80 to 90 real human remains, according to a written statement Ralph Holloway sent to The Eye.Holloway, a ...

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...