An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

A group of European researchers is developing a 3D bioprinting technique that promises to open multiple possibilities. But ...

Electricity has always been central to how life works, from the firing of neurons to the beating of the heart, but new research suggests cells may be generating power in ways biologists had not ...

Researchers report an unexplained 71-terahertz vibration in living cells, mouse tissues and isolated mitochondria that ...

Potential applications inside living cells "We can control how and where these RNA droplets form and what they attract, effectively creating new, temporary rooms inside the cell furnished with ...

Today's nearly $70 billion U.S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies—used to produce around 17 billion gallons of ethanol annually—leverage microorganisms ...

(Iana Kunitsa/Moment/Getty Images) Every cell in your body is running on tiny power stations. Mitochondria turn energy from food into ATP, the molecule that powers almost everything cells do. How they ...

Death ends the body’s ability to function as a whole, but it does not kill every cell at the same instant. Research has shown that some human cells remain viable for hours or even days after death, ...

Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty job; but someone’s got to do it. Biodiversity is rapidly dwindling, with wildlife populations ...

A new study led by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) reveals that living matter violates previously ...