While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of ...

Artificial cells assembled from lifeless chemical components have been created to ingest nutrients, grow, divide into two, ...

Periodical cicadas have one of the strangest life cycles in the animal kingdom. The 17-year cicadas spend 99.5% of their lives underground in an undeveloped nymph state, which is the longest strictly ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

Could your body’s hidden 12-hour clock hold the secret to metabolic health and disease? New research links our internal rhythms to ancient ocean tides. Review: Biological rhythms: Living your life, ...