Researchers in Hong Kong have taken a significant step towards safer and more responsive humanoid robots by developing an electronic skin that can feel touch and react to pain in a human-like ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

One of the only things I think I’ve learned in what will, pretty soon, be decades, plural, of work in elite sport is that everybody is human. Everybody. Every Body. (Including the refs!) Which means ...

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 ...

Our body’s “blood factory” consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types. Now, researchers have succeeded for the first time in recreating this ...

The 17th century Evelyn Tables show real human nerves and veins, dried on wooden boards. Designers on the new Netflix film took note. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The Movies ...

The team observed the emergence of the three-dimensional embryo-like structures under a microscope in the lab. These started producing blood (seen here in red) after around two weeks of development - ...

When the GenAI hype was just picking up steam, I wrote about the danger of drowning in LLM-produced blah if we failed to utilize the expertise of human linguists. It gives me no pleasure to say I was ...

Just as a genome is all the genetic information of an organism, a connectome is a map of all the neuronal connections in the brain of an organism (Swanson and Lichtman, 2016). The human brain contains ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...