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

Starting one's sex life and having children at a young age can run in the family. But can pregnancy have beneficial health ...

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 ...

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

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.

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

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 ...