How a brain's anatomical structure relates to its function is one of the most important questions in neuroscience. It ...

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Baron Jakob Johann von Uexkull, a Baltic German biologist, mentioned in his book entitled Stroll through the World of Animals that all creatures, including plants, on this planet live in an Umwelt ...

NASA's AVATAR study will send Emulate organ chips containing human cells on the Artemis II mission to study how deep space ...

Some human organs, such as kidneys and lungs, have back-ups. Some can be lost with little consequence—the spleen, for example ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Artificial tissues that mimic the placenta, endometrium, ovary and vagina could point to treatments for common conditions ...

Now researchers have created a new approach: a blood test that can measure the biological ages of eleven organs and systems ...

Scientists at the University of North Texas report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown replicas of human organs. These replicas, called organoids, can mimic some functions and structures of ...

In his new BBC show, Jim Al-Khalili journeys through hundreds of millions of years of brain evolution. Live Science spoke to him about what he learned along the way and how this knowledge sheds new ...

We humans love putting things in boxes. Assigning simple categories makes us feel comfortable – but all too often, biology ...

Lab-made organoids that mimic reproductive tissues could point to treatments for common conditions such as pre-eclampsia and ...