Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect ...

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

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

University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass ...

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

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 ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time. When injected into mouse ...