If you are anything like us, whenever you plan a journey, you spend a remarkable amount of time thinking about the start and the middle. Is everything packed? What time should we leave? Will there be ...

Hey, what if you could have a factory that makes robots that is run by… robots? This is hardly an original thought, but we are a long way from having an assembly line of C3POs self-replicating. On the ...

After 246 years, Pvt. John Pumphrey is unknown no more. Through DNA testing and old-fashioned sleuthing, the Maryland ...

Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s ...

For decades, creating life from non-living materials has largely belonged to science fiction. Now, scientists say they have crossed an important scientific milestone – by building a synthetic cell ...

Cancer treatments like radiation and chemotherapy work by doing one main thing: shredding the DNA of cancer cells so they can no longer multiply.

The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, researchers said ...

A parasite carried by billions of people worldwide often causes harmful infections during pregnancy and in immunocompromised ...