Scientists at Rice University have engineered living cells to light up like tiny beacons, revealing protein changes in real ...

The interior of a cell is packed with proteins and nucleic acids, such as RNA, all of which need to perform specific ...

Graham Johnson, a computational biologist and scientific illustrator at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, recalls fantasizing at a lunch table, more than 15 years ago, about a computer model of a ...

The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...

For the first time in history, scientists have succeeded in remotely controlling nanoparticles armed with synthetic motors placed inside a human cell. The groundbreaking research was conducted at Penn ...

Research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw.

Harvard Medical School researchers are designing next-gen robots that can flex, contract, and grow like human beings.

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...

A cell nucleus reconstituted in vitro in Xenopus laevis (African clawed frog) egg extract. Left image shows a fluorescence image where DNA has been stained and right image shows a density map of the ...