(STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without ...

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

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 ...

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

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

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time. When injected into mouse ...

Blind people have been offered fresh hope of seeing again after lab-grown cells restored retinal function in mice. The ...

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 ...

Researchers at UMass Amherst have combined high-throughput laboratory screening with an AI neural network to identify ...

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