If future studies confirm the rescued receptors work normally, the study offers a new roadmap for rare disease drug development.

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Researchers build anthrobots from human airway cells that self-assemble, move, self-heal, and reverse aging markers, offering insights into synthetic life systems.

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To uncover this mechanism that may unfold only in the human brain, the researchers developed an organoid — a miniature 3D structure, grown from stem cells, that mimics a full-size structure found in ...

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Microplastics have been detected in human blood, brain tissue, and even bones, where they may weaken skeletal structure and ...