Minions & Monsters director Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions, answers how they reproduce, if they can die, and what ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

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

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

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

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