Researchers have identified a troubling interaction between widely sold vitamin B3 supplements and standard chemotherapy ...

Scientists built SpudCell, the first synthetic cell that grows, divides and evolves, entirely from non-living chemicals. They still won't call it alive.

Invertebrate vaccine science has crossed a commercial threshold: Dalan Animal Health’s United States Department of ...

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

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

Researchers have found that a decrease in scar-generating cell death called ferroptosis may be a mechanism that drives IPF.

When most people think about Alzheimer's disease, memory loss is usually the first thing that comes to mind. Forgetting a loved one's name, missing appointments or repeatedly misplacing everyday items ...

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.

Colossal Biosciences is working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to launch a biobank to save endangered species.

A century after one of developmental biology’s most influential experiments, researchers have revisited the concept of the embryonic “organizer” in one of the oldest animal lineages alive today.

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that combining ...