From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.
The cells made in Kate Adamala’s lab at the University of Minnesota are, in her own words, “wimpy” and “helpless”. They have ...
Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...
While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...
From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.
What do Botox, rat poison, weight-loss drugs and a fictional murder investigation have in common? At the University of Nevada ...
In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with the European Space Agency (ESA). The aeroplane flew big arcs up and down in the sky. At the top of the arc I experienced 22 seconds ...
Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...
How do you teach someone to look at the moon? Not glance at it, the way we all have on a clear night, but truly read it, the way a geologist reads a hillside. That was the challenge NASA set itself ...
Kim Young-joo (pseudonym, 47 years old), who lives in Gyeonggi Province, finds her household in a pre-storm situation these ...
What is a sleep study? There are different stages of sleep. Each stage has aspects that can be measured. A sleep study is a number of tests recorded at the same time during sleep. The tests measure ...