For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

Some two dozen biotech developers of PROTACs, molecular glues and other types of protein-degrading drugs have sprung up over ...

The growth of new segments (body parts) in marine worms is controlled by a special growth zone, in which special stem cells ...

A fertilized egg somehow manages to build skin, brain, and blood cells within days. But how? New tech called LoxCode is ...

Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, which seems to aid their ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

Microscope image of the miniature fallopian tube growing in a lab dish. (Image credit: MPI f. Infection Biology) In 2015, scientists used stem cells in a lab dish to grow the innermost cellular ...

In contrast, Nanolive’s technology detects the physical refractive index of the different cell parts with resolution far beyond the diffraction limit (see Nobel prize 2014 for chemistry). As the ...