A walrus is seen in Alaska's Chukchi Sea in June of 2010. Research by a University of Alaska Fairbanks student found microplastics, mostly tiny fibers, were lodged in muscle tissue, blubber and livers ...

Women recovering from mastectomies may soon have more lifelike options for breast reconstruction surgery, thanks to 3D-printing technology under development at the University of Maryland, College Park ...

Every day, your body replaces billions of cells—and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible? A team of researchers at ChristianaCare's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research ...

Marine mammals — animals including whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, sea otters, dugongs, and manatees — are threatened by an array of human activities. Species such as the North Atlantic right ...

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from engineering, biology, and materials science to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue ...

Ashlee Ford Versypt hopes the work will allow physicians to better predict how to promote regeneration across different tissue systems in the body.

Samantha Garrard receives funding from NERC. Plastic debris poses a particularly significant problem. Marine mammals mistakenly eat items such as plastic bags, food wrappers, ropes and abandoned ...

Kristin Weiland is a documentary film producer and writer with a background in crisis management and ethnographic research. She specializes in investigative and social impact documentary projects, and ...

For the first time, tiny bits of plastic have been found in the body tissue of Pacific walruses, lodged in the animals’ muscles, blubber and livers. The findings, from a University of Alaska Fairbanks ...