Ancient viral DNA offers clues to why human and chimpanzee brains evolved differently
An ancient viral insertion silences LINC00662 in chimpanzee cells, while the gene is active during early human brain…
How to build a mouse: embryo development captured in stunning detail
By introducing and tracking mutations as the cells of a mouse embryo divide, researchers have mapped relationship between…
Researchers Discover What May Be Fueling One of the World’s Most Common Spine Disorders
Lumbar spinal stenosis is a condition in which the spinal canal in the lower back narrows, placing pressure…
How to make a brain: new experiments challenge existing picture
Blood vessels (artificially coloured) snake through a a mouse’s brain.Credit: Simon Walker-Samuel, UCL CABI/Science Photo Library For decades,…
Human brain cells transplanted into mice in ‘most extensive’ integration ever
Human brain tissue transplanted into mice that lack a key part of their brains can grow to occupy…
World’s oldest lab-grown human brains grow for seven years recording ‘passage of time’
A team of scientists have produced organoids that have become the world’s oldest lab-grown human brains — with…
China launches ‘human artificial embryos’ to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world
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Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals
For millennia — since at least the time of Aristotle — medical thinkers have pondered why certain animals…
Humans May Have Hidden Regenerative Powers, New Study Suggests
A conceptual graphic shows how growth factors BMP2 and FGF2 are applied to the injury site to stimulate…
This organoid can menstruate — and shows how tissue can repair itself
Gynaecological disorders such as endometriosis could be studied using endometrium organoids.Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock Researchers have developed organoids that can…
Norway Man Cured of HIV With Brother’s Stem Cells
A 63-year-old man in Norway seems to have gotten one of the best gifts ever given by a…
This method to reverse cellular ageing is about to be tested in humans
Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On…