When oil is dropped in water, the oil droplets stay separate. Cells can also use a system like this to separate or gather ...

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

Penn State researchers have developed a technique they call “cellular snowballing,” in which lab-grown cells mixed with ...

Organoids are miniature, simplified versions of an organ. Over the past two decades, scientists have developed them for the ...

Researchers introduces an innovative chemical strategy to create biomimetic structures with greater efficiency.

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

As more labs have adopted this methodology, they’ve created increasingly complex structures, including interconnected systems ...

In A Nutshell Scientists reprogrammed skin cells from children with Sanfilippo syndrome into lab-grown brain cells and found ...

Researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto have demonstrated a new way ...

The Promise of Synthetic CellsSynthetic biology aims to engineer artificial systems that replicate the behavior of living cells. These ...

Researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto have demonstrated a new way to monitor ...