A jellyfish no wider than a dime can do something human skin cannot. When its surface is torn, the wound can close in minutes ...

If that sounds like the original vision of OpenAI—a big AI lab that started life as a high-minded non-profit—that, says Dr ...

Unlike accidental cell death, some cells can actively decide to die through a controlled process. This is called programmed cell death and can occur in different forms, including apoptosis and ...

Researchers attend an exchange and discussion session at the afternoon tea party in the Tianjin Institute of Industrial ...

In April 1965, three prominent Italian scientists called a press conference: Adriano Buzzati Traverso, geneticist and ...

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 ...

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

Inside every cell are lipid molecules that make up cellular membranes, helping organelles communicate and respond to stress.

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of control over the genetic software that powers living cells — and could reshape ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

To create the leather, scientists started with fragments of fossilised T-Rex collagen, then used AI and computational biology ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.