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The liver is critical to maintaining the functioning of the body as it processes nutrients from the diet, produces key ...

Organoids, miniaturized, stem cell-derived versions of human organs, are revolutionizing biomedical research by offering human-specific models for disease study and drug testing. While they have ...

For decades, neuroscientists have developed mathematical frameworks to explain how brain activity drives behavior in ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new ...

Starting in the 1970s, researchers identified a beautiful system of specialised cells in the hippocampus (the brain’s memory ...

Object recognition software is used by law enforcement to help identify suspects, by self-driving cars to navigate roadways and by many consumers to unlock their cell phones or pay for their morning ...

A student startup from the University of Michigan that makes miniature human intestines for more predictive preclinical drug testing was the overall champion at the 2025 Heartland Challenge.

A collaborative team from the University of Macau and Nanjing University found, using clinical databases and samples, that the loss of a protein named MFG-E8 in nucleus pulposus (NP) tissue is a ...

Object recognition software is used by law enforcement to help identify suspects, by self-driving cars to navigate roadways ...

The ensemble of skeletal muscles can be considered the largest metabolic and endocrine organ of the human body. The more than ...

Researchers have applied object recognition technology to track changes in brain cell structure and provide new insights into how the brain responds to heroin use, withdrawal and relapse.