Mark Zuckerberg backs $500 million push to build AI models of human cells as part of long-term effort to cure disease.

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

As 2025 comes to a close, the editors at The Scientist asked researchers to reflect on the biggest breakthroughs in cell biology this year. They named advances in everything from embryo models for ...

The number of cells being analyzed in single-cell projects continues to push the envelope. Last week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) launched the Billion Cells Project—an effort to generate an ...

When Giovanna Prout, president and CEO of Scale Bio, thinks about single cell technology, she thinks big. (Meaning, a lot of cells.) And she wants researchers to think big with her. To that end, a few ...

Uncover how memory T cells contribute to the recurrence of periodontal disease using cutting-edge immunology and single-cell technologies. This project explores how memory T cells contribute to the ...

LABLINES: “Linking Arts and Biology through Lines & Narrative for Engaging Science,“ is set to launch at Tufts this semester. The initiative recently received a grant from the Tufts MUSE funding ...