UCR scientists create a fully synthetic model for growing brain cells that could allow for animal-free drug testing.

Understanding how bone marrow produces blood–and how this whole process can fail–is critical to fighting blood cancers and ...

The “blood factory” of the human body is composed of specialized tissue that includes bone cells, blood vessels, nerves, and various other cell types.

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

To work toward getting around this issue, researchers used parabolic flights to simulate microgravity conditions, then 3D ...

While microplastic pollution continues to advance, research into its possible effects on health remains hampered by technical ...

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 ...

Two teams of scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have won first and second place in NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge. The ...

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 ...