For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue. Now researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a ...

A new light-controlled hydrogel developed at CU Boulder mimics the movement and flexibility of real tissue, giving scientists a more realistic way to study ...

Dartmouth researchers have developed a cell phone-based tool that monitors tissue health by using a naturally occurring ...

Personalized therapies for diabetes, while showing promise in international studies, is met with healthy skepticism from ...

An international research team led by the Levenberg Laboratory in the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the ...

Scientists have long observed that embryos of different species within a phylum look quite distinct at early and late ...

Every multicellular organism, from tiny worms to humans, elephants, and whales, needs a way for their cells to connect with each other to form tissues, organs, and organize their overall body plan.

Japan has approved two stem cell-based therapies for treating Parkinson's disease and heart failure in a world first, through ...

Dissociating tissues into single cells is a core laboratory technique and vital for widely used applications such as next-generation sequencing or flow cytometry. Scientists who employ tissue ...

A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the first time, in a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and the ...