Pet cloning has becoming big business in the US, with Barbra Streisand and Paris Hilton among its early adopters. Yet cloning ...

The oversight of clinical laboratory testing, which requires federal- and hospital-level involvement, offers many instructive lessons for how to balance safety and innovation and warnings ...

"The rate of progress has been remarkable," says stem-cell specialist Martin Pera at the Jackson Laboratory. "It's just 26 years since we first learned to culture human stem cells in flasks ... "The ...

Loring speculates that microgravity conditions may more closely mirror the conditions experienced by cells within the brain compared to organoids grown under conventional lab conditions and in the ...

When a fungal culture is done, your healthcare provider must take a sample of fluid, tissues, or cells from your body to place in the culture dish or some other type of testing field. Below is a list ...

But he eventually recognized the potential for a planet-wide catastrophe if a mirror cell escaped containment — either accidentally released from a lab, or set free as a biological weapon.

With new technologies and sustainable practices, lab-grown diamonds are becoming an increasingly popular choice among jewelry shoppers. They’re chemically and physically identical to earth-mined ...

Here are some recent examples. In 2015, scientists used stem cells in a lab dish to grow the innermost cellular layer of human fallopian tubes, the structures that connect the ovaries and the uterus.

To maintain infectious stocks in labs, they either have to be growing in cells or preserved ... the current policies and procedures in operation today at the laboratory," he said.

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Tiny cerebellar organoids in a culture flask. Credit: Sergio Bianco Brain organoids are grown in a lab using stem cells, and can mimic the functions of different regions of the brain like the cortex, ...