Minions & Monsters is out now, and the newest movie in the Despicable Me and Minions franchise redefines what can be done with the yellow, overall-wearing, gibberish-speaking troublemakers. Early in ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

Starting one's sex life and having children at a young age can run in the family. But can pregnancy have beneficial health ...

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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 ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a breakthrough in synthetic biology.

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

For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

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

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 ...