(Juan Gartner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The human immune system has evolved an incredible ability to fight off ...

A tiny icy object orbiting beyond Neptune has surprised astronomers by displaying an atmosphere that, according to current ...

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

Scientists Say Asteroid Contains All 5 DNA Letters Raising Big Questions About Life ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass ...

Scientists achieve long-term retinal regeneration in mice by blocking the PROX1 protein, offering hope for treating retinal ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

The health secretary has advocated for deregulating more peptides, but FDA scientists point to a lack of data about their ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

More U.S. scientists are heading abroad. Three researchers explain why they decided to shift their research to universities ...