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GUO YALI/CHINA DAILY China is actively exploring innovative approaches to organizing biomedical research, betting that ...

Scientists at USC have developed a way to create a renewable supply of immune cell precursors that can be grown in large ...

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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 ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

Rochelle Walensky, HMS professor of medicine, part-time, at Massachusetts General Hospital, was given the 2026 Tzedakah ...

New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s still not ...

Our bodies are constantly deciding which cells should live and which should die through a process called apoptosis. This type ...

Discover SpudCell, the synthetic cell created from lifeless chemicals that eats, grows, and reproduces, bringing us closer to ...