When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

Cancer cells have a survival trick that nobody expected: they co-opt vitamin B2, one of the most ordinary nutrients in the ...

A bacterial compound originally studied as a natural antibiotic can force cancer cells into a fatal spiral by corrupting ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising dark side to vitamin B2: it may help cancer cells stay alive. The vitamin supports a ...

Every human cell is surrounded by a sugar coating known as the glycocalyx. It not only interacts with its environment but also reveals a great deal about cells' internal states. Scientists at the Max ...

A cell on its way to becoming skin pigment, blood, or nerve does not make that shift alone. It responds to a dense web of ...

A new AI framework estimates how cells change over time and infers the gene regulatory networks controlling those changes.

PSC-derived cells can reverse type 1 diabetes in mice and may overcome some of the hurdles faced by existing stem cell ...

Spatial-biology tools are collecting more comprehensive data, and companies that want to model cells in silico are hoovering ...

Biochemistry and cell biology together address how molecules assemble into living cells, how cells sustain life through chemical reactions and how they organise into tissues and organs. Biochemistry ...

On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows.