When a person urinates, skin shells are routinely shed from the lining in the kidney, and it's these cells that the researchers reprogrammed into stem cells, which can turn into any type of cell in ...

Whether Fido had an oopsie or you are toilet training a little one in your life, accidents happen — and if they happen on your couch, well, the resulting aroma has a way of sticking around. And while ...

No extra calcium required to make teeth. Aug. 1, 2013— -- Did you think repurposing feces for better digestive health was kind of weird? A team of scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African researchers say they have made bricks using human urine in a natural process involving colonies of bacteria, which could one day help reduce global warming ...

In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own family's urine. "When we ...

When humans return to the moon to stay, where will they live? Well, it turns out they might live in lunar bases made of astronaut pee. In a new study, researchers have found that urea, the major ...