Knowable Magazine reports that loneliness affects both humans and animals, as researchers find that social interaction is a fundamental need for well-being.

Chronic iron accumulation renders neurons hypersensitive to oxidative stress, highlighting the importance of modeling ...

SpudCell marks a milestone for synthetic biology, but it is not fully alive. It will, however, help scientists answer key ...

When Dolly the sheep—the first cloned mammal—was born 30 years ago, she became one of the most famous animals in science ...

In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that combining ...

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

The Trump administration is curbing animal experiments in response to shifts in public opinion, technological advances, years of animal rights advocacy and the work of a conservative activist. By ...

A solar charging kit, inexpensive as-is and purchased after further promotional enticement, enables keeping a remotely located vehicle battery topped off. One of the things I enjoy most about ...

A 3D rendering showing the internal structure of an animal cell, with several round or wavy structures inside a border. It turns out that the redox state of a cell, such as the animal cell shown, is ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presents core pathological changes that current medications cannot reverse. Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) transplantation has shown therapeutic potential ...