Miniature organs on a chip could allow us to do scientific studies with great precision, without having to resort to animal testing. The main problem, however, is that artificial tissue needs blood ...

In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a-chip, also referred to as microphysiological systems, are becoming increasingly ...

The cells in our body are constantly exposed to a wide range of forces - cells pulling on each other, flowing fluids exerting pressure, the effects of ...

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

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Researchers are getting better at growing miniature organs and embryos in test tubes or on chips. This creates new ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

Rather than being like battery chargers, mitochondria are more like the motherboard of the cell.

Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might.

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

New research has shown how the parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica takes bites from your cells to use as a disguise, ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...