Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease

Pea-size clusters of human cells called brain organoids inspire both hope and fear. Experts are debating how scientists can ...
eLife

Human EEG and artificial neural networks reveal disentangled representations and processing timelines of object real-world size and depth in natural images

Neural and computational evidence reveals that real-world size is a temporally late, semantically grounded, and hierarchically stable dimension of object representation in both human brains and ...
Knowridge Science Report

Beyond “junk DNA”: Scientists find a hidden gene that controls cell size

These genes are part of the non-coding genome, which makes up about 98% of our DNA and was long dismissed as “junk.” This new ...
Phys.org

Scientists identify first non-coding gene that controls cell size

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...
EurekAlert!

Duke and Duke-NUS’ joint cross-population research to uncover "East-West" differences in disease and care

By comparing clinical cohorts and populations from Singapore and the US, researchers will study infectious diseases, corneal disorders, liver transplant outcomes, diabetes and lung cancer to uncover ...
The Conversation

How scientists are growing computers from human brain cells – and why they want to keep doing it

Bram Servais formerly worked for Cortical Labs but holds no shared patents or stock and has severed all financial ties. As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Are Growing Human Organs In Animals—And It’s Working

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...
Phys.org

Nanoflowers rejuvenate old and damaged human cells by replacing their mitochondria

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular energy production—a finding that could have revolutionary effects across ...
GEN

Bone Marrow Model Created Entirely from Human Cells

Typically, bone marrow research relies heavily on animal models and oversimplified cell cultures in the laboratory. Now, researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Created Structures That Produced Blood Cells in the Lab—With a Process That Mimics Real Human Embryos

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...
Oregonian

OHSU researchers create human eggs from skin cells, pointing to new frontier in fertility treatment

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have achieved a scientific first: transforming human skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab. Their study, published Tuesday in Nature ...