Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers are deliberately engineering living cells so that they behave like quantum bits, hinting ...

Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of biology’s greatest challenges — and one in which scientists say they just made a ...

From the bizarre creatures in the depths of the oceans to the bacteria inside our bodies, all life on Earth consists of cells. But we have only a very rough idea of how even the simplest of those ...

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 ...

Just as an Apple Watch monitors your fitness and ChatGPT can customize a healthy meal plan for your specific needs, biomedical researchers could soon be able to leverage the power of artificial ...

A new partnership between the University of Oregon and Southwestern Oregon Community College seeks to allow marine biology students to spend their whole undergraduate academic career on the Oregon ...