Fast forward nine years, and the consortium Overvelde and Kluin have assembled, in the hope of making the soft artificial heart a reality, have raised more than €14 million (€3.1 million from the ...

People the world over have always consumed ham. Each country has its favourites: Italy has prosciutto, France has Bayonne ham ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome.

BrainAlignNet, AutoCellLabeler, and CellDiscoveryNet—to automatically track and identify neurons in moving worms and jellyfish.

Our analysis showed that temporal perception has even greater variation than scientists may have realised. Our perceptual ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Natural muscle fibers are made up of spring-like proteins that can contract and stretch without losing their original form, dissipate mechanical energy as heat and maintain incredible tensile strength ...

Understanding the connection between behavior and brain cell activity is a major goal of neuroscience. To make progress, neuroscientists often choose simple, transparent lab animals because it's ...

Researchers have been studying tens of thousands of proteins and even more variations without a yardstick to compare their results.

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...