Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...