Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Tufts University have engineered tiny living constructs from frog ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...

Entering a cell and watching its entire inner machinery at work, how DNA is copied, how proteins are assembled, or how it splits in two, has been, for decades, an impossible dream. Now, scientists at ...

Hydrogel micromachines recreate the push and pull of living cells, helping scientists study how mechanical forces shape tissues in the lab.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering alum Jacob Feder, PhD’25, and PhD candidate Benjamin Soloway. (CREDIT: UChicago ...

Scientists have successfully connected living human brain cells to a computer system and taught them to interact with the classic video game DOOM. The strange experiment marks a new step toward ...

Ever since the popularity of 3D-printing skyrocketed in the mid-aughts, people have manufactured everything from chocolate to rocket fuel—and that list now includes a microscopic elephant inside of a ...

(Nanowerk News) A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and provide insights into a wide range of diseases. The study, ...

For the first time, this has allowed them to observe live and in high resolution how influenza viruses enter a living cell. Led by Yohei Yamauchi, Professor of Molecular Medicine at ETH Zurich, the ...