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

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have shown how higher ...

We're all interested in slowing the aging process, but the notion that any simple intervention will have a dramatic effect is ...

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death worldwide, and high cholesterol is a major driver of that problem.

Poor cholesterol levels, particularly high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, can be harmful because they ...

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

Scientists built SpudCell, the first synthetic cell that grows, divides and evolves, entirely from non-living chemicals. They still won't call it alive.

Researchers have spent decades—and billions of dollars—sequencing animal and crop genomes, but fungi have historically been the forgotten middle child of genomics, only noticed when they're ruining ...

Scientists uncover a hidden liver pathway that destroys LDL receptors, opening a promising new front in the fight against ...

A gene variant found more often in people who live past 100 has reversed key markers of cardiac aging in laboratory tests on ...

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 ...

A widely used antidepressant, sertraline, is now being detected in the brains of hammerhead sharks off the coast of Rio de ...