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Scientists hooked up brain tissue to a neural interface, allowing it to pass on instructions to a humanoid robot body.

Scientists Create Robot Controlled by Blob of Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Good news for bad nuts: scientists have succeeded in growing itty bitty testicle organoids in a lab, which may help male infertility.

Scientists Grow Teeny Tiny Testicles in Laboratory

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have created a "biocomputer" from lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that can perform voice recognition.

Neuroscience and Brain

Computer Made From Human Brain Cells Can Perform Voice Recognition

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

By Victor Tangermann

Using stem cells to grow minitiarized intestinal tissue called organoids, the researchers recreated a human immune response inside mice.

Scientists Grew Tiny, Partially Functional Human Intestines Inside Mice

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has inserted human neurons into the brains of rats with damaged visual cortices.

Neuroscience and Brain

Blobs of Human Brain Implanted in Rat Brains Replace Damaged Vision Functionality

By Victor Tangermann

In what could be a groundbreaking treatment for hair loss, Japanese scientists have, for the first time ever, grown hair follicles in a lab.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Grow Hair Follicles in Laboratory for the First Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have successfully grown brain organoids — tiny, three-dimensional tissue cultures that mimic the real thing — each with their own set of 'eyes.'

Scientists Just Grew These Grotesque Mini Brains With “Eyes” in a Lab

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers grew a working tear gland in the lab that they say can help them study disease and perhaps someday might be used as a transplant.

Lab Grows Human Tear Glands That Can Actually Cry

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are infecting mini-organs with COVID-19 to better understand how the virus infects and interacts with human organs.

Mini-Organ Research Reveals What COVID-19 Does to the Body

By Dan Robitzski

To study how early humans related to Neanderthals, a team of European scientists grew mini brains from human stem cells that contain Neanderthal DNA.

Science & Energy

Scientists Grow Petri Dish Mini-Brains With Neanderthal DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that lab-grown mini-brains on the International Space Station are giving off brain waves, potentially posing a new ethical dilemma.

Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The world's first lab-grown blood vessels have already yielded one new lead in the hunt for better diabetes treatments and more could be on the way.

Health & Medicine

We Can Now Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in a Lab

By Kristin Houser

The first lab-grown placenta has remained stable for a year. Doctors hope it can better explain and help prevent first-trimester pregnancy complications.

The First Lab-Grown Placenta Unlocks Brand New Medical Research

By Dan Robitzski

Up to 20 percents of the cells in our lab-grown mini kidneys are actually brain and muscle cells, according to new research.

Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys Keep Spawning Rogue Brain Cells

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created the first lab-grown esophagus using pluripotent stem cells, and it could help identify new treatments for digestive disorders.

Health & Medicine

Why Scientists Grew a Tiny Human Esophagus in a Lab

By Kristin Houser