Researchers at the University of Minnesota claim to have created the first synthetic cell. They are calling it SpudCell, ...

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...

The new synthetic cell grows and divides on its own.

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Hydrogen has long been touted as the solution to electrifying and decarbonizing heavy vehicles, such as long-haul trucks. But ...

A school project prompted 17-year-old Edward Kang to develop an AI tool that may lead to earlier diagnoses of the disorders.

Nine new Challenge Programme grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation will support ambitious research across fungal diseases, cardiometabolic disease, soil health and non-equilibrium biological systems ...

Every summer, hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students at Penn take advantage of the multitude of programs offered ...

Understanding inflammation – and above all, how to regulate it – is one of the great medical challenges of modern medicine.

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Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and ...