A group in Yokohama reported it has grown a primitive liver in a petri dish using a person's skin cells. The organ isn't complete. It's missing a few parts. And it will be years --maybe decades ...

blindness and peripheral artery disease, leading to amputations. The researchers then exposed the blood vessel organoids to a "diabetic" environment in a petri dish. "Surprisingly, we could ...

When they returned to the lab after the weekend, they discovered that one of the mold samples had pushed the lid off of the petri dish and was bubbling over the edge.The mold was a strain called ...

Unless governments fund research to better address fungal disease and reverse the environmental factors that fuel their emergence, we will remain vulnerable. For many plants and animals ...

Susan Kimber (left) is a Professor at the University of Manchester (UK), where for the past 15 years, she and her lab have been working on human pluripotent stem cells for tissue engineering ...