Cancer, arthritis, and diabetes can develop when cells activate the wrong genes. Yet, those failures are remarkably rare.

The Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE, has published the Class 11 syllabus for the 2026-27 academic year. Students ...

University of Virginia postdoctoral researcher Róża Przanowska investigates how long non-coding RNA structural domains drive ...

Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be ...

For centuries, people have argued about what separates something that's alive from something that's simply chemistry.

Five Cambridge scientists have been elected as members of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing life? We used to think it took a mysterious, magical spark to bridge that ...

Fluorescent microscopy of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - undergoing division. Credit: Kate Adamala, Adamala Lab For centuries, the question of ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s first synthetic cell capable of completing a full life cycle, marking a milestone in efforts to build living ...

Scientists say they have developed the world’s first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle, built entirely from ...

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 ...