Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

Cells are the basic units of life — but when it comes to cells, if you think basic means simple, think again. Cells are complicated, with many millions of biochemical reactions per second seething ...

Genome engineering has the potential to revolutionize medicine. The modularity of CRISPR enables high-throughput functional assessment of genomic regions, providing insights into the regulation of ...

Human bodies make 2 million red blood cells per second. They each live for 120 days and spend that time zooming completely around the body every 20 seconds, carrying oxygen from the lungs to other ...