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Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian ...

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For most of medical history, aging has been treated as a kind of slow damage accumulation, the body accruing wear the way a car does. A small army of researchers is now making a different argument, ...

MINNESOTA, USA — After more than a decade of work, University of Minnesota researchers say they have built the first synthetic cell assembled from nonliving components that can complete the major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells ...

Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene therapy trial that aims to coax aged cells to take on a younger identity. The clinical trial will test a novel ...