Treating inflammatory or autoimmune disorders in which the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body can involve shutting down the whole immune system, and this may increase the risk of ...

Randomness inside cells can decide whether a cancer returns after chemotherapy or whether an infection survives antibiotics. Even cells with the same DNA can act differently because their molecules ...

NIST researcher Elizabeth Strychalski’s research group is helping to establish the measurements and standards needed for progress in engineering biology, also known as synthetic biology. For over a ...

Cells constantly shift and transform, triggering the complex choreography that shapes living organisms. Whether dividing into new cells or sculpting an embryo, these tiny movements rely on chemical ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have designed what they describe as a minimal synthetic cell capable of demonstrating symmetry breaking in response to chemical cues that they believe could be ...

A synthetic cell that can be activated by a magnetic field to release a medicine whilst deep in the body has been created by chemists at UCL (University College London) and the University of Oxford.

In a feat aimed at understanding how cells move and creating new ways to shuttle drugs through the body, scientists say they have built a minimal synthetic cell that follows an external chemical cue ...

Using DNA and proteins, scientists have created new synthetic cells that act like living cells. Blurring the line between artificial and living materials, these cells can be reprogrammed to perform ...

In a feat aimed at understanding how cells move and creating new ways to shuttle drugs through the body, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have built a minimal synthetic cell that follows ...

In pursuit of a deeper understanding of cellular life, biologists use patterns in data as a springboard for probing specific elements in complex systems. Delete a gene here; express a protein there; ...