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

(STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without ...

Discover SpudCell, the synthetic cell created from lifeless chemicals that eats, grows, and reproduces, bringing us closer to ...

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to ...

In mammals, hair follicles emerge during embryonic development, forming geometric patterns that vary from one species to ...

Created from 150 components, including lipids, ribosomes, enzymes, and DNA, in the lab. At the core of the design are 36 ...

A new "tumor-on-a-chip" model is giving scientists a live look at how pancreatic cancer can recruit the body's own immune ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Blind people could one day regain their sight after lab-grown cells restored retinal function in mice, according to a ...