Light-controlled hydrogel mimics soft human tissue for more realistic cell studies

For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue.
University of California, San Francisco

Shape-Shifting Gel Helps Scientists 3D Print Organs That Grow in Lab

Scientists at UCSF invented a microscopic “womb” material for growing artificial organs (organoids) from scratch.
Michigan Technological University

Research in Focus: Huskies Seek the CURE

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.
C&EN

Growing crystals tiny and large

Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...
Tech Xplore

'Milestone' findings on imaging methods call for a closer look at battery microscopy

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) allow researchers at the forefront of energy technology to study next-generation battery materials down to the atom. But new research has discovered that the ...
The Hamilton Spectator

High-tech microscope debuts at LU geology lab

THUNDER BAY — A donation from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization will help Lakehead University scientists see certain things more clearly. With a Keyence petrographic microscope and mineral ...
Miami University

Makino Subtractive Lab will be ‘driver for amazing things’

Part of the mission of the Advanced Manufacturing Workforce and Innovation Hub (AM Hub) is to meet the manufacturing challenges of the future. The new Makino Subtractive Lab will be a leading factor ...
Oxford Mail

Oxford Uni lab undergoes multimillion-pound refurbishment

A multimillion-pound laboratory refurbishment has been completed for the University of Oxford. Wantage-based construction company Stepnell was appointed to modernise the molecular physiology and ...
Fast Company

Oxford’s giant new lab building has a secret hidden in its facade

As researchers approach the front doors of Oxford’s new Life and Mind Building (LaMB), they’re greeted with a towering concrete facade, rendered with a rippling surface effect. What first appears to ...
WBUR

Tufts to launch innovation hub for lab-grown foods

Tufts University announced Thursday it will use a $2.1 million state grant to create an innovation hub for lab-grown foods. The new center will open in 2026 on the school's Medford campus. Scientists, ...
WBUR

Conn. forensic lab was crucial in Brown University mass shooting investigation

Rachel Beninati, a forensic science examiner, shows how the The NIBIN analyzation system at the Connecticut Forensics Lab works in Meriden, Connecticut on Dec. 29, 2025. (Ayannah Brown/Connecticut ...
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University of Alberta unveils Canada's cutting-edge cryo-microscope

Go inside the new Alberta Cryo-EM Facility and see the microscope that reveals the tiniest details of life. Researchers can now visualize proteins and viruses to develop innovative medical ...