Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears ...

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious subdivisions and in which membranes are used almost exclusively to define the ...

The research could open up avenues for fertility treatments after additional refinement and trials, but it also raises ethical concerns ...

Scientists created the eggs using DNA from adult skin cells, a step that could someday potentially lead to new ways to treat infertility and enable gay couples to have genetically related children.

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have accomplished a unique proof of concept to treat infertility by turning skin cells into eggs capable of producing early human embryos. The ...

A paper published in PNAS in May describes work by External Professor Juan Pérez-Mercader and colleagues to create biochemistry-free self-assembling and reproducing ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In sexual reproduction, gametes containing a single set of chromosomes combine ...

At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ocean temperatures.

Scientists are working to create human eggs in a laboratory dish, but the process is proving to be more challenging than expected.

Abstract: Nonthermal atmospheric-pressure plasmas provide new hope for medical application due to their potency in killing microorganisms. However, effectiveness and safety need evaluation. Here, the ...

Bacteria are amongst the simplest of organisms – they are made of single cells. Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals, plants and fungi.

Replace the VAE algorithm in the paper《Design of diverse, functional mitochondrial targeting sequences across eukaryotic organisms using variational autoencoder》with the QBM-VAE algorithm, ...