MIT researchers have developed a new bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb ...

Recent research introduces a soft, injectable material designed for use in the eye to help protect and support damaged ...

In a discovery that could reshape approaches to regenerative medicine and bone repair, researchers have found that human stem cells can be prompted to begin turning into bone cells simply by squeezing ...

million wisdom teeth are removed every year, but the process of sending them to a biobank could be very simple.

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they've called the "exoparia." The finding deepens our ...

Brain tissue is extremely soft and needs an extremely soft hydrogel, while a hydrogel used with cartilage needs to be stiff enough to flex and bear weight,” Yang said.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured out how this unusual phenomenon occurred.

Vitrification of soft tissue was “incredibly unlikely,” said Alexandra Morton-Hayward, a forensic anthropologist at the UK’s University of Oxford, adding that she was not convinced that the ...

Some "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved from a famous fossil site in New York State, USA – and best of all?