World's first 'zinc oxide spin qubit' could advance scalable quantum devices

A research team led by SKKU professor Hosung Seo of the Department of Quantum Information Engineering and the SKKU Advanced ...

Two ways to read a genome: Body-wide, single-cell atlas maps DNA folding and methylation together

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

How sea anemone cells reform into an organism

Researchers at the University of Vienna have discovered a key mechanism that enables sea anemones to regenerate into fully ...
New Scientist

Everything from cells to stars to particles exists on the edge of chaos

Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along with ...

Bio-metals: Ancient sea worms hold the secret to a strange new class of materials

Perinereis cultrifera carries jaws that blur the boundary between biology and metal. Built from proteins and metal ions, the ...
STAT

Synthetic biology researchers think they’ve made a cell. Is it alive?

Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation ...
The New York Times

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.

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 ...