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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

After the first observations of life under the microscope, it took two centuries of research before the 'cell theory', the idea that all living things are composed of cells or their products, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...