Bangkok — Scientists have developed human embryo-like structures without using sperm, an egg or fertilization, offering hope for research on miscarriage and birth defects but also raising fresh ...

We all know the drill for reproduction—sperm meets egg. But mice aren’t people. And the same recipe doesn’t work for human reproductive cells. One reason, according to Dr. Mitinori Saitou at Kyoto ...

AMES, Iowa – The first thing you noticed during a visit to a new Iowa State University engineering laboratory was the full-sized mannequin lying across a table. That’s for studies to improve suturing ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) recently reported a striking first: They created human eggs in the lab using skin cells and then fertilized those lab-derived eggs with human ...

FOR BIOTECH, DEB, IT REALLY IS. IN THE PAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, MARYLAND’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED A BILL PROVIDING GRANTS TO MARYLAND SCIENTISTS WHO DEVELOP NON ANIMAL BASED RESEARCH METHODS. IT WAS ...

Spinal cord injuries cause permanent paralysis in part because inflammation, cell death, and glial scarring block nerve regeneration, and there has been no reliable human tissue model to test ...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vivodyne, a biotech that discovers and develops more effective drugs by testing them on lab-grown human organs, today announced the close of $38 million in total seed ...

A cutting-edge laboratory technique that turns human stem cells into brain-like tissue now recapitulates human brain development more accurately than ever, according to a new study from Case Western ...

ROCHESTER — Among all of the things skin, the body's largest organ, is good at, it's particularly great at regrowing itself. "The skin turns over every 30 days," said Dr. Saranya Wyles, a ...

The University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus is now home to the state's main database for human trafficking data. A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May names the Trafficking in Persons ...

CHICO — The state’s only full-time forensic anthropology laboratory has provided immeasurable benefit to local, state and federal law-enforcement agencies, but the 50-year-old facility, on the Chico ...