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Stem cells can help build lab-grown organs that mimic real life
Making such organoids with 3-D printing and other tech can help researchers learn more about many troubling and potentially deadly disorders.
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Making such organoids with 3-D printing and other tech can help researchers learn more about many troubling and potentially deadly disorders.
Long, thin bacteria that conduct electricity may be able to help clean up oil spills and reduce emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
TMAO’s water-wrangling ability protects a critter’s critical proteins — including muscle — from crushing under deep ocean pressures.
Svante Pääbo figured out how to examine the genetic material from these hominid ‘cousins’ of modern humans.
The genomes of salamanders are bloated with genetic “parasites.” That extra DNA slows down their lives and strands them in perpetual childhood.
The advance brings super realistic cyborgs one small step closer to reality.
The two types of leaves grow at different heights in trees at dry versus wet areas. They may help redwoods adapt to climate change.
The world’s most abundant natural polymer is finding all kinds of new uses, in everything from ice cream to construction.
Scientists are using living cells and tissue as building blocks to make robots. These new machines challenge ideas about robots and life itself.
Doctor Erica Esrick discusses existing treatments and an ongoing clinical trial for a gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease.