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Earlier this week, a disturbing study found that a one-liter water bottle contains around a million "nanoplastic" particles. They're so small — measured on a scale down to a billionth of a meter — that they can enter human cells, a possibility that has alarmed scientists. These tiny compounds, which are significantly smaller than microplastics, […]

New DNA testing means experts can study chromosomal abnormalities from thousands of years ago.

A new study has found that the average bottle of water contains nearly a quarter million fragments of “nanoplastics” — plastic particles so small they can potentially gum up the machinery of human cells. The findings published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) open a disturbing window into a largely unmapped corner…

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the promise of using mRNA as medicine. But before mRNA drugs can go beyond vaccines, researchers need to identify the right diseases to treat.

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and Food and Drug Administration FDA publish warning letter to Akan Biosciences for unresolved inspection observation

Researchers have created a "biocomputer" made up of lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that can perform voice recognition. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Electronics, the researchers coaxed bundles of human cells called "organoids" into neurons, and paired them up with an electronic

A team of scientists engineered impressive tiny biological robots made from human cells that could be used to help regenerate tissues.

Researchers have engineered tiny robots made from human cells that could potentially be used to help heal wounds, regenerate tissue, and even treat diseases. As detailed in their new study published in the journal Advanced Science, these multicellular "anthrobots" have already demonstrated that they can move on their own and help repair and regrow damaged […]

The researchers behind the frog embryo ‘xenobots’ are now focusing on similar automatons made from human material—with unexpected results.

The coronavirus pandemic brought global renown to the mRNA technology that underpins vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and on Monday earned a Nobel Prize for two scientists who have been key to its development. Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize for their work on "nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19".