Danish publishing firm, Ghost Ship Publishing, is back with a new title. It is partnering with a developer studio known as Chop Chop Games. The pairing has pushed out the first proper playable demo ...

For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave like life. The lab-made synthetic cell ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could usher in an era of ...

A 23-year-old man from Louisiana has become one of the first people in the United States to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease using Casgevy, the world's first approved CRISPR-based ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A 23-year-old New Orleans man became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy. Daniel Cressy underwent the procedure at ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have achieved what researchers are calling a genuine milestone in synthetic biology by constructing the world's first cell built entirely from non-living ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists test first-ever therapy to make human cells young again (NewsNation) — Scientists have treated the first person in a ...

A man and a woman with a rare and devastating autoimmune disease have been in remission for more than 15 years after receiving a stem-cell transplant 1. The positive results, which were reported in ...

Daniel Cressy, 23, says path leading to completion of curative gene therapy is his ‘greatest blessing’ A young south-eastern Louisiana man recently became the first person in his region to be ...

Scientists have built a cell from scratch using nothing but non-living chemicals, in what researchers describe as a genuine milestone for synthetic biology. The creation, named 'SpudCell', can feed ...

Life begins with a single cell. It grows, copies its DNA, divides and repeats the cycle billions of times — a process that has powered every living organism on Earth for billions of years. Scientists ...