UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

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

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

A tiny blob in a dish has pushed one of biology’s oldest questions into new territory: When does inanimate chemistry become ...

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

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...

There's something almost uncanny about walking into a science classroom and being able to gauge, within the first five ...

A church’s emergency response plan helped save a man who collapsed during Bible class. In the next 2 minutes and 57 seconds, one church member dialed 911 while others performed CPR and retrieved an ...

Parents spend the first 18 years of their kids' lives keeping them safe and meeting their daily needs. Ideally, they slowly wean them off of this protection, teaching them a few key life skills before ...