Tag Archives: Developmental biology

‘En Caul’ Birth: Premature Baby Born In Amniotic Sac Leaves Doctors Speechless

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A woman who gave birth to a premature baby was hoping for a healthy delivery. Instead, the California woman took part in history with a very rare “en caul” birth. The child born in the amniotic sac...

Lab-Grown Organs like Vaginas and Noses are Now Possible

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The capacity of science to grow human organs in the lab – and successfully implant them back into the people from whose cells they came – has grown terrifically in recent years. Two new studies in...

New Teeth is Grown from Urine

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Human teeth can be kept for a lifetime provided you brush them and floss them. But when poor dental hygiene causes them to chip or crack, then it is science which must come to the rescue. Scientists...

Functional Human Liver Tissue Successfully Grown from Stem Cells

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Stem cells were employed in an effort to create human liver tissue. The end products were much smaller than full-fledged human livers. Nevertheless, they functioned perfectly well when transplanted...