This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic biology and our definition of “life.” By K. R. Callaway In a lab at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amaia Zabala-Letona is at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences, Basque Research and Technology Alliance, 48160 Derio, Spain, and at the Biomedical Research Network Center for Cancer, ...