Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes ...

A human cell, alive and lasing It's not quite Cyclops , the sci-fi superhero from the X-Men franchise whose eyes produce destructive blasts of light, but for the first time a laser has been ...

Were there already viruses on Earth when the first living cells appeared billions of years ago? – Aayush A., age 16, India.

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes ...

How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary for cells to thrive and assemble into complex organisms? New research from the ...

Trinity College Dublin now has Ireland's first and only BioBrillouin microscope, which will enable researchers to make giant ...

Altogether, they account for more than 50 percent of the cell’s DNA. “Our motivation is to understand the first principles of genome fundamentals by building synthetic genomes,” co-author Patrick ...

Every living cell has at its core a kind of chemical engine. This is true for a neuron in a human brain as well as for the simplest bacterium.

Tiny protein factories, or ribosomes, have been made to self-replicate outside a living cell for the first time. The achievement is a crucial step towards building self-replicating artificial ...

UCSF scientists have developed a “molecular GPS” to guide immune cells into the brain and kill tumors without harming healthy tissue. It is the first living cell therapy that can navigate through the ...

How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary for cells to thrive and assemble into complex organisms? New research from the ...