Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Your skin has an inner structure called rete ridges, which act as a kind of Velcro, holding the layers together. It’s involved in enabling new cell ...

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The Health and Human Services Department has reversed around $2 billion in grant cuts to substance-abuse and mental-health programs, rescinding termination notices that sent shock waves through ...

Robots are getting better at seeing, hearing, and moving, but touch has always been the missing piece. At CES 2026, Ensuring Technology showcased a new kind of artificial skin that could finally give ...

The takeaway: Researchers in China have developed an artificial skin that allows robots to sense pressure and respond in ways similar to living tissue, helping them avoid damage. The flexible ...

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WILLIAMSPORT-A Massachusetts woman a judge once described as a key player in the interstate market for stolen human remains has pleaded guilty. Katrina Maclean, 46, of Bradford, admitted Monday in U.S ...

Two copies of a poetry book by formerly enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley are bound in human skin and housed in Cincinnati. The books were bound in the 1930s for a collector who reportedly smuggled the ...

A microscope image of a human egg contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University) WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have achieved a scientific first: transforming human skin cells into eggs that can be fertilized in the lab. Their study, published Tuesday in Nature ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have turned human skin cells into eggs and fertilized them with sperm in the lab for the first time—a breakthrough that is hoped to one day let infertile people have ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...