Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute report that ...

In an interview, synthetic biologist Peter Carr explains research on synthetic cells, their potential benefits and hazards, ...

Leading CAR T cell therapy researchers have developed a human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) framework that centers ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

A novel immunotherapy could lead to a brain cancer breakthrough after showing promising results against glioblastoma, the ...

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

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

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

Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...

Summary: Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has revolutionized the treatment of liquid blood cancers by engineering a patient’s own immune cells to destroy malignant targets, replicating ...

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

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...