Researchers have crossed a threshold that once belonged squarely to science fiction: they have built working models of brains ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into ...

Under his microscope, Jun Wu could see several tiny spheres, each less than 1 millimetre wide. They looked just like human embryos: a dark cluster of cells surrounded by a cavity, and then another ...

We have all seen the initial AI-generated videos of humans moving. The lack of ability to reproduce authentic human-like behavior makes us feel creeped out, in an innately human way. The opposite of ...