Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent channels lined with thousands of living cells and pumped with liquid containing ...

Why would anyone do this? Turns out, many scientists have been working on growing the organs of one animal inside of a different type of animal. For example, scientists recently reported the ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary groups of animals? Chromatophores are organs that are present in the skin of many ...

Now, MSU engineers and scientists have improved this technology to shield vital internal organs as well. Falls, motor vehicle crashes and other kinds of collisions can cause blunt force trauma and ...

But your skin doesn't just protect you from living organisms. It also needs to keep your internal organs safe from getting dehydrated. At the base of every hair on your body is a tiny gland known ...