Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

Descriptions of the embryo go back at least to the time of Aristotle, but it has only been since the late 19 th century and early 20 th century that advances in experimental approaches allowed ...

Scientists have long known that a significant portion of the human genome is made up of the remnants of ancient viruses; these sequences are a subset of transposable elements known as endogenous ...

The coolest, most complicated machine is not an airplane, electric car or robot vacuum cleaner. It’s you. “You built yourself from a single cell, which no machine has ever had to do,” said Carole ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich are growing human brain- like tissue from stem cells and are then mapping the cell types that occur in different brain regions and the genes that regulate their development.

Two to three weeks after conception, an embryo faces a critical point in its development. In the stage known as gastrulation, the transformation of embryonic cells into specialized cells begins. This ...

For much of the 20th century it was thought that the adult brain was incapable of regeneration. This view has since shifted dramatically and neurogenesis – the birth of new neurons – is now a widely ...

Genomics, a science-led techbio company using large-scale genetic information to develop innovative precision healthcare tools and to accelerate drug discovery and development, has today announced the ...

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat ...