SpudCell marks a milestone for synthetic biology, but it is not fully alive. It will, however, help scientists answer key ...

Sustained progress across all areas of science and technology over the last half-century has transformed the expectations of society in many ways. Yet, even in this context of extraordinary advances, ...

SpudCell is exciting scientists because it appears to bring several features of life together in one system. The researchers describe it as capable of feeding, growth, genome replication, genetically ...

The number of candles on a birthday cake marks time, but it does not tell the full story of aging. Two people born in the same year can look and feel very different decades later.

Researchers at Hebrew University use RNA trans-splicing to program cells for disease detection ...

Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

A four-week diet change was enough to make some older adults appear biologically younger in a new University of Sydney study. Participants who reduced fat intake or shifted toward more plant-based ...

Data centers today are large energy hogs that need a cornucopia of CPUs and GPUs to function. An Australia startup, however, is building a new kind of data center, one that will rely on living human ...

You may think you know how old you are, but your body doesn’t follow a calendar. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. That is, your ...

Biological computing, a field in which living human neurons interface with silicon hardware, is progressing from proof of concept to early functional systems, with broad implications for computing ...