Why do some people remain healthy and active well into old age while others experience serious health problems much earlier?

Scientists have created the world’s first man-made cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. Called SpudCell, it is the work of ...

While completing her postdoctoral research across the Tasman, Dr Amelia Almeida helped lead a study that reshaped how ...

First gene replacement therapy in the EU for broad population with SMA, including children two years and older, teens and ...

Canada is at the forefront of agricultural biotechnology, combining strong scientific capability with a regulatory system designed to encourage innovation. Farmers have already integrated GM crops ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

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 ...

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

Neanderthal babies have always been hard to study, mostly because their remains are so rare. That scarcity has left one of the oldest arguments in human origins unsettled: were Neanderthals following ...