Researchers have created a new 3D model of human embryonic tissue that promises to shed light on critical components of development -- including processes that go awry during pregnancy complications.

Three original images from an artificial colon, taken using an endoscope. The 3D model can be used to adjust the lighting in an original image so that darker areas become better illuminated, as shown ...

Arguably, all of scientific inquiry in modern times begins with some sort of model. A model takes different parameters you are studying and uses them to make some claim about how our world works. It ...