In A Nutshell Researchers have launched a free, publicly accessible 3D atlas of real human organs that lets anyone zoom from whole-organ views down to near-cellular detail in a web browser. The scans ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Back in 2005, the Franklin Institute broke records — and possibly some taboos — with its first iteration of the “Body Worlds” exhibit. The exhibit, featuring real human specimens —including whole-body ...

Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough ...

Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after injury. For some, however, muscle development goes awry, leading to weakness, ...

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