Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel Researchers claim they are closer to creating life from scratch after building ...

Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward ...

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

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 fab lab, short for fabrication laboratory, is a digital fabrication workspace rather than a traditional hand-tool workshop.

Scientists discovered a protein secreted by a deep-sea extremophile—an organism adapted to extreme environmental ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish - their ...

The National Cervical Screening Laboratory means most Irish women’s CervicalCheck samples can be tested within the State ...

On a YouTube livestream, Berkeley City College students carefully study the movements of stem cells to observe what they do ...

Experts worked in ocean midwater off Brazil at near-record speeds thanks to cutting-edge tech ...

A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish – their ...