Life Biosciences has received FDA clearance to begin a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial of ER-100, a gene therapy ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

How many times have you wondered about the Big Bang and theory of how life on Earth as we know it, came to be? Or what the ...

A jellyfish no wider than a dime can do something human skin cannot. When its surface is torn, the wound can close in minutes ...

Imagine a simple, everyday foodstuff with a surprising but powerful defense against one of the most serious threats to public ...

For billions of years, cells have perfected their biological machinery for making proteins, sending signals, and responding to their environment. Now scientists are learning how to program some of ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Metabolic syndrome is a major global health challenge characterized by a cluster of metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors, including insulin resistance, ...

Abstract: During the past decades, the poration of cell membrane induced by pulsed electric fields has been widely investigated. Since the basic mechanisms of this process have not yet been fully ...

Summary: A new study uncovered a novel biological pathway and a promising therapeutic agent capable of slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.The research reveals that the cellular enzyme GRK2 ...

Inside the brain is a dense network of neurons that receive, process, and relay information. The synapse, where neurons meet, is the epicenter of this communication. Neurons that send information, ...

A team at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism by which cells send signals to one another—an insight that could help ...