Honeybee queens are made not just by royal jelly, but by an entire colony engineering the perfect royal nursery.

In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

Groups of bacteria known as biofilms thrive in surfaces all around us. These microscopic clusters are abundant in aquatic ...

Leonie Schön's Lamellipodium Art blends medicine and art, turning microscopic images of cells and tissues into striking ...

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 ...

Sperm cells from a 42-year-old gorilla could bring the promise of new life thanks to the work of a wildlife charity. Jock, a silverback western lowland gorilla who spent the major ...

The initiative has been taken as part of the university's endeavour to bridge the gap between academia and the corporate ...

And what if that battery could be fueled by nuclear waste? That’s the future scientists are working toward in DARPA’s “Rads to Watts” program, which aims to create lightweight batteries with a high ...

The University of Minnesota scientist speaks to Times Now Digital about SpudCell, the synthetic cell that can grow and ...

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...