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 Kettering Institute Developmental Biology Chair Kathryn Anderson, Ph.D., is publishing its final study.

An artificial cell assembled from non-living chemical components has been created that can take in nutrients, grow, divide into two, and even produce offspring. This marks the first instance where the entire life cycle of a cell—from nutrient uptake to growth,

The pancreas is in the upper part of the abdomen. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common form of pancreatic cancer, is particularly deadly and hard to treat.

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.