Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

The debut of synthetic biological intelligence marks an unprecedented milestone in the fields of biotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI). Researchers ...

Researchers have found that some cells form new multicellular structures with functions that defy their original biological ...

A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something ...

Human biology is not black and white. Although newborns are typically categorized as male or female at birth based on visible ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

Scientists have found a way to study early embryonic development without real embryos. Using CRISPR, they programmed stem cells to self-organize into structures mimicking early embryos. The cells show ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

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For the first time, researchers developed stem cell-derived pig retinal cells in comparison with human retinal cells, ...

The discovery of ‘ovoid cells’ is transforming our understanding of memory and may pave the way for new treatments for ...