BOSTON, Mass. (CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Apparently, robots can reproduce. It's happening at a lab near Boston, Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, scientists have created living machines. They are cells ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell growth, development, and proper connectivity. This environment is carefully ...

Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found a subpopulation of hematopoietic stem cells, the source of all blood and immune system cells, that reproduce much more slowly than ...

Life finds a way, and the same goes for even robots, according to a group of scientists who say the first living robotic life forms can reproduce. In January 2020, a team of scientists from the ...

It might soon be easy to build living robots — because they'll build themselves. New Scientist reports Harvard University, Tufts University and University of Vermont researchers have learned that ...

Scientists have managed to create what have been referred to as "living robots"—tiny organisms that are able to make copies of themselves—and a video shows how the process works. The living robots, ...

In the embryonic kidney, three types of precursor cells, nephron progenitor cells, ureteric buds, and interstitial progenitor cells, interact to form three-dimensional structures of the kidney.

Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, ...