University of California, San Francisco

Could These Tiny Organs Save Millions of Lives?

UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

Scientists create first man-made cell that can eat and grow

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...
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OHSU researchers find ‘holy grail’ for universal malaria vaccine

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found a key to developing a vaccine against one of humankind’s oldest and deadliest diseases. Researchers from OHSU and ...

Scientists create first-ever synthetic cell from scratch that can live and multiply on its own

How many times have you wondered about the Big Bang and theory of how life on Earth as we know it, came to be? Or what the ...

Study demonstrates neurotransmitter communication in immune cells directly for the first time

Researchers at the University of Münster and Ruhr University Bochum have demonstrated for the first time in real time that the body's own defense cells use catecholamines—neurotransmitters such as ...
The Economist

Scientists take another step towards lab-made life

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Say They’ve Made Cells That Feed, Grow and Reproduce, Bringing Them One Step Closer to Building Life From Scratch

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...
The Economist

Scientists have built a cell from the ground up

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Male Fruit Flies Have Sperm That Are Nearly as Long as Their Bodies. Here’s How the Cells Don’t Become a Tangled Mess

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...
Quanta Magazine

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

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 ...