One year after receiving three doses of a custom-built CRISPR base-editing therapy at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

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.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising principle behind the brain's intricate development from a single cell. Researchers ...

We have identified the gene that, when activated, initiates the developmental programme that results in cells forming a human ...

When Jasmin Imran Alsous peered down her microscope lens, she expected to see chaos—a mishmash of tangled cells. She was viewing the inside of a male fruit fly's sperm storage organ, using a powerful ...

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells ...

Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells to take on a younger identity. The clinical trial will test a novel ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our ...

In chapter 15 of 007 First Light, you'll need the Q-Lab codes to prepare Bond for his final mission. The R&D sector of MI6 is filled with top-tier spy technology, from gadgets to cars. You would ...