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.

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 ...

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

For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. What no one could work ...

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use ...

Blind people could one day regain their sight after lab-grown cells restored retinal function in mice, according to a ...

A new form of CAR T-cell therapy has been designed to find and destroy the cancer-driving stem cells responsible for a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), while ...