The average time to get a drug to market, crossing FDA hurdles, is 12 years and costs in excess of $1B. TARA Biosystems has developed breakthrough technology to generate human tissue outside of the ...

A new analysis of more than 1,500 papers and 60 types of tissue has revealed the total number of cells in the human body. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The latest studies published by The Human Cell Atlas make further progress toward their goal of mapping every human cell type, and these four papers focus on multi-tissue cell analysis. The Human Cell ...

The average adult male has around 36 trillion cells in their body, while average adult females have 28 trillion, researchers have found. Unexpectedly, the mass of small cells in our bodies, such as ...

In 2020 biologist Michael Levin and his colleagues reported that they had made “biological robots” by shaping clusters of cells into tiny artificial forms that could “walk” around on surfaces. Levin’s ...

Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they’ve found them — food, water, air and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren’t directly exposed to the ...

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The decision reverses Trump administration rules and allows scientists to use tissue derived from elective abortions to develop treatments for diseases including cancer and AIDS. By Apoorva Mandavilli ...