Engineered proteins enable smartphone-based detection of specific DNA sequences

Imagine a container of tomatoes arriving at the container terminal in Aarhus. The papers state that the tomatoes are from ...

A ‘Third State’ Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something ...
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Spatial 3D map of the human genome is built

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

Patient-specific human liver model lays foundation for personalized treatments

Liver disease is a major global health problem, causing over two million deaths worldwide each year. While animal models have ...

'Zap-and-freeze' snapshots catch brain cells in the act of learning

Researchers at Leipzig University's Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology, working in collaboration with Johns Hopkins ...
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AI-powered robotic hands learn dexterity by mimicking human movements and anatomy

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...
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Your organs when you're born!

Discover the wonders of the human body with "Human Buddy," our new animated show. In this educational series, we explore various aspects of biology in a fun and entertaining style, similar to our ...