A New York City father is desperately seeking a donor to save his teenage son’s life. Max Uribe, now 15 and a high-school freshman, has just weeks until he will need to be hospitalized with a rare ...

In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains” consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish how ...

On her best days, Tatyana Thompson’s pain was at a level five. Some days, it would stay that way, a persistent throb in her joints, her hands, her back. On other days, if she was dehydrated or was hit ...

Simulator-style video games are designed to scale in complexity, allowing players to engage at anything from a casual level to highly detailed, realistic simulation. Microsoft Flight Simulator, for ...

Last March, it quickly became clear something was wrong with 3-year-old Avry Jo Schapansky. After a week-long cruise with her family, she had trouble walking once she was back on land in her Bastrop ...

Bone health relies on a balance between osteoblasts (builders) and osteoclasts (recyclers). Peak bone mass occurs in early adulthood; deficiencies during this window amplify fracture risks later in ...

A map of the immune cell landscape found in the bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma could shed light on how the immune system interacts with cancerous plasma cells. It could also help ...

PHOENIX — Five-year-old Blakely Ensign is, by all accounts, a girly girl. “What were your favorite toys to play with?” she was asked in a recent interview. “Barbie,” Blakley responded. "How many do ...

Aging taps us on the shoulder in many ways: wrinkles, thinning hair, loss of flexibility, slowing of the brain. But the process also unfolds at a more fundamental, microscopic level, as the energy ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the first of its kind to be developed entirely from human cells. Not only can ...

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 ...