Consider the brake. Not the engine, which gets all the attention, but the brake, the quiet thing that decides how fast a system is allowed to go.

A recent study published in Cell Death & Disease suggests that specific cellular abnormalities in the brain associated with ...

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 ...

University of Minnesota researchers created SpudCell, the first bottom-up synthetic cell that feeds, grows, replicates DNA and divides.

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

In a study published in Science, USC researchers paired a biological discovery with an engineering feat to create more ...

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 ...

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

Synthetic organizers provide a way to control formation of kidney organoids as more reliable models for studying disease and ...

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