A microscopic model of the human liver to study the effects of different food contaminants. The spherical model, measuring 0.3 mm in diameter, includes the four cell types found in the human liver.

Japanese scientists have successfully created miniature human brain circuits in the laboratory using small lab-grown brain models known as assembloids. These assembloids are made from stem cells that ...

(Nanowerk News) Creating tiny, laboratory grown organs is one of the latest developments in the search for new personalised medical treatments — and a new Curtin University-led project is looking to ...

How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive. Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in ...

One of the biggest obstacles in targeting CRISPR therapy deliveries directly into the body isn’t the editing chemistry, it’s the size of the editors themselves. The field’s workhorse nucleases, ...