A pattern as familiar as hair may hold clues to one of biology’s deeper mysteries. The way hair follicles arrange themselves ...
A new study challenges a 60-year-old assumption about the body’s main structural building block, opening new possibilities ...
SpudCell marks a milestone for synthetic biology, but it is not fully alive. It will, however, help scientists answer key ...
GUO YALI/CHINA DAILY China is actively exploring innovative approaches to organizing biomedical research, betting that ...
In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...
Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...
A jellyfish no wider than a dime can do something human skin cannot. When its surface is torn, the wound can close in minutes ...
A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...
The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, ...
Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...
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