Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

Small, 3D-printed devices, designed to be implanted directly under the skin, could allow people with type 1 diabetes to ...

Using a newly devised, three-dimensional model to study the regeneration of nerve tissue in the nose, researchers at School ...

Insulin-producing human pancreas cells can be manufactured with 3D printers, researchers reported at the International Transplant Congress underway in London.

Organ-on-a-chip systems offer a more accurate, ethical, and scalable alternative to animal testing in drug discovery and ...

Scientists don’t completely understand how this kind of multicellularity evolved in animals. Cell-to-cell adhesion, or the ability for individual cells to stick to each other, certainly plays a role, ...

Dietary supplements and minerals. Which are important for your health? Read the latest medical research on vitamins, omega 3 fatty acids, minerals and other dietary supplements.

Cells are the fundamental, structural, and functional units of living organisms. Cells are composed of cytoplasm containing various organelles, such as the nucleus, in which the DNA is stored, or ...

Now, for the first time, scientists have developed a continuously replicating model of lip cells in the laboratory. Using donated lip tissue, they have created cell lines which can be grown ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

Description Diagram of generic plant and animal cells, showing major organelles including nucleus, nucleolus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, cell membranes, golgi apparatus ...