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

During his PhD, an immunologist at a Harvard Medical School-affiliated research hospital followed what he understood to be best practice: recording his work in an electronic lab notebook (ELN). Then ...

In a quiet corner of Switzerland, researchers have stopped treating metal like something to be melted and poured, and started treating it like something that can be grown. Instead of blasting powders ...

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As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason ...

The Citizen Science Lab cut the ribbon on its new innovation center in the heart of the Hill District.