My boyfriend and I made some very ambitious, misguided decisions in the winter. We signed ourselves up to host guests in our small one-bedroom apartment for basically most of the summer. We are now ...

A man who experienced housing instability during his teenage years has spoken about the positive impact a youth charity had on his journey to independence.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

A group of University of Minnesota researchers have just effectively created something like life. It’s an artificial cell named after a potato. “This is likely the most exciting project I’ve ever ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet ...