UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...
One year after receiving three doses of a custom-built CRISPR base-editing therapy at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, ...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...
Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...
From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.