Genetic studies have revealed many genes linked to both common and rare disease, but to understand how those genes bring about disease and use those insights to help develop therapies, scientists need ...

In a recent article published in the Science journal, researchers demonstrated tissue-specific immune cell characteristics in humans by performing cross-tissue immune cell evaluation. Study: ...

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A ...

We’ve come a long way from the Vacanti mouse. Back in the mid-90s, Charles Vacanti and other researchers experimented with cartilage regeneration and, with the help of a biodegradable mold and bovine ...

As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach ...

Aging seems to occur in a linear fashion throughout the human lifespan, from childhood to the "golden years," but a new study has revealed one specific turning point when aging starts to accelerate in ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

A pair of research projects involving the Medical University of Vienna ( MedUni Vienna) and partners has now developed a new ...