In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...

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

MINNESOTA, USA — After more than a decade of work, University of Minnesota researchers say they have built the first synthetic cell assembled from nonliving components that can complete the major ...

The U of M has built the world’s first synthetic cell that can grow, divide and replicate, opening the door to new ...

A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce cell size without significantly compromising cells' ability to grow. The work, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells ...

Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells to take on a younger identity. The clinical trial will test a novel ...

For most of medical history, aging has been treated as a kind of slow damage accumulation, the body accruing wear the way a car does. A small army of researchers is now making a different argument, ...

Scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich, and the University of Oxford have developed RegVelo - a new AI framework that ...

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A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging. Credit...Photo illustration by Kensuke Koike Supported by By Susan Dominus Why are babies born young? The most ...

A startup out of Utah, Paterna Biosciences, says it has successfully grown functional human sperm in a lab and used the sperm to make visibly healthy-looking embryos. The technique could eventually ...