Tiny fat bubbles carrying gene therapy have successfully repaired DNA in the lungs and liver of animals with alpha-1 ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Every day, your body replaces billions of cells—and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible?

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

Hertz Fellow Reuben Saunders developed a powerful new CRISPRi-based screening platform to silence genes in millions of cells across living tissues. His award-winning thesis, “Pooled genetic screens ...

Animal cells have many small vacuoles within them while plant cells have one large one. The vacuole within a plant cell can ...

Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate. Most people will ...

Lab-grown beef, chicken and even quail are served in restaurants in some countries around the world - and now some cultivated ...

Animals, from worms and sponges to jellyfish and whales, contain anywhere from a few thousand to tens of trillions of nearly genetically identical cells. Depending on the organism, these cells ...

Unlike many animals that form scar tissue, salamanders regenerate bones, muscles, blood vessels—everything needed for a fully working limb. What’s even more mind-blowing is their ability to regrow ...