Another addition to the list of body parts that have been grown in the lab is blood vessels. In 2024, scientists created a " blood-vessel-on-a-chip " which mimicked the shape of blood vessels and ...

Reverse Engineering The Brain To Model Mind-body Interactions Date: June 12, 2008 Source: University of British Columbia Summary: When you grab a cold beverage out of the cooler this summer, what ...

And to ensure quality of body parts sold, it found inspiration in a legendary model of efficiency: McDonald's. By JOHN SHIFFMAN and BRIAN GROW Filed Oct. 26, 2017, 11 a.m. GMT ...

FLORA LICHTMAN: Hey, I’m Flora Lichtman, and this is Science Friday. [MUSIC PLAYING] SciFri, I just got back from Columbia, Missouri, where we were doing a live stage show with radio station KBIA. So ...

Every year, an estimated 20,000 people donate their bodies to science for the purpose of medical research and education. But unlike organ donation, these body parts can be bought and sold for profit.

What makes a so-called perfect body? For anatomist Alice Roberts, a medical doctor and writer, the vision of human perfection had nothing to do with modern standards of fitness and beauty.

New imaging technology that processes hundreds of medical scans to generate a perfect virtual 3D model of the human body will allow doctors to more accurately diagnose disease and prepare for ...