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

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists crafted a super intravital microscope that is capable of seeing clearly the entire three-dimensional (3D) interactions of a large-scale cell's network at the ...

Biohub and UC Berkeley show that the laser phase plate, a revolutionary device with a laser 100 million times brighter than the Sun, dramatically improves images obtained through cryo-electron ...

Explore the shape, structure, and movement of red blood cells under the microscope in this fascinating science clip.