In recent years, there has been a lot of excitement about the potential for studying human diseases in what are called “organoids.” These small patches of tissue, formed using stem cells, appear to ...

Labeling medical test results as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ helps clinicians make quick judgments when diagnosing patients. But ...

A study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that new cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos—giving scientists ...

The word "normal" permeates many aspects of our lives—from medicine to fashion, intelligence testing to behavior. However, beneath its comforting surface lies a more complex and potentially limiting ...

A study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that new cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos-giving scientists ...

Xenotransplantation is the insertion of an organ from one species into another. When the organ is an animal’s and the recipient human (as with the transplant of pig kidneys into people whose own are ...

Scientists have created a mouse with a cortex largely made up of human neurons. After deleting most glutamatergic neurons in the mouse neocortex and hippocampus, Sergiu Paşca and colleagues at ...