In recent years, mini–brain organoids have been used in the lab to model a variety of diseases, from Alzheimer’s to COVID-19. With no standard process for creating these organoids, some more ...

Conception's chief scientific officer, Pablo Hurtado, examines very early primordial germ cells under a microscope in a company lab in Berkeley, California. (Laura Morton for NPR) BERKELEY, CALIF. — ...

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If humans are going to transition away from eating animals, we’ll need to make the alternatives a lot tastier for the countless among us who will still have meat on their brains. While the plant-based ...

Today, more than 3,400 life science and biotech companies call California home. But in one of the state’s most densely populated regions, some science-focused startups struggle more with finding ...

Scientists can furnish research and education labs for a small fraction of the cost by printing their own equipment, says Michigan Tech's Joshua Pearce, who explains how in his new book, "Open-Source ...

On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San Francisco Bay, a young man answers the door at a low concrete building. "I'm Matt Krisiloff. Nice to meet you," says one of the founders ...

Medical researchers have discovered how to create more accurate, consistent brain organoids to develop treatments for neurological disorders. By using stem cells to grow miniature brain-like organs in ...