This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

Reproductive physiologist Cara Wells says today up to 20% of transferred embryos have virtually zero chance of making a pregnancy and explains how video, AI and better selection can turn those losses ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Scientists discovered a protein secreted by a deep-sea extremophile—an organism adapted to extreme environmental ...

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

A brief medical note in the U.S. CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published 45 years ago would have profound impacts ...

On a YouTube livestream, Berkeley City College students carefully study the movements of stem cells to observe what they do ...