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MIT scientists have developed a new 3D human brain tissue model that could change how researchers study neurological diseases. The platform, called Multicellular Integrated Brains or miBrains, ...

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It's bound to happen at a summer picnic, a peaceful walk in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard… a mosquito targets ...

But once a cancer has been detected, the ability to quickly specify exactly which treatment will work is set to have a ...

In the lingo of the field, dopamine-producing cells are measuring a reward prediction error — the difference between the ...

Pet cloning is all the rage for those who can afford it, but those who study the genetics of brain development have some ...

The devastating retrovirus HTLV-1 has eluded scientists for decades. Overcoming chronic funding and other challenges, ...

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

A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found.

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...