Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

UC Davis researchers have received a nearly $4 million grant NIEH to develop the world’s first standardized method for measuring and describing the neurotoxicity of airborne nanoplastics.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Engineers have developed a new way to monitor how tiny lab-grown human heart tissues beat—by effectively "listening" to the ...

Reproductive physiologist Cara Wells says today up to 20% of transferred embryos have virtually zero chance of making a pregnancy and explains how video, AI and better selection can turn those losses ...

A fab lab, short for fabrication laboratory, is a digital fabrication workspace rather than a traditional hand-tool workshop.

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 ...

Scientists discovered a protein secreted by a deep-sea extremophile—an organism adapted to extreme environmental ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish - their ...

The National Cervical Screening Laboratory means most Irish women’s CervicalCheck samples can be tested within the State ...

A research expedition off the coast of Brazil has documented more than 30 new deep-sea species, from translucent worms to ...

On a YouTube livestream, Berkeley City College students carefully study the movements of stem cells to observe what they do ...