If that sounds like the original vision of OpenAI—a big AI lab that started life as a high-minded non-profit—that, says Dr ...

Unlike accidental cell death, some cells can actively decide to die through a controlled process. This is called programmed cell death and can occur in different forms, including apoptosis and ...

In April 1965, three prominent Italian scientists called a press conference: Adriano Buzzati Traverso, geneticist 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 ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of control over the genetic software that powers living cells — and could reshape ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

To create the leather, scientists started with fragments of fossilised T-Rex collagen, then used AI and computational biology ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

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

The first class of Boehringer Ingelheim and Missouri Western State University’s new program offering the technical skills needed for careers in biomanufacturing have completed the ...

Credit: Shutterstock A wild mouse with an unusually long life may reveal clues to healthy aging. Aging is often treated as an unavoidable biological process, but evolution tells a more complicated ...