Engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order. MIT and Boston University engineers ...

In new research, Alex Green, an assistant professor at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, demonstrates how living cells can be induced to carry out computations in the manner of tiny robots or computers. The ...

The orientation of a line at a given position in visual space is represented by a small volume of primary visual cortex, known as an orientation column. Although cells within such a column share some ...

In a town on the shores of Lake Geneva sit clumps of living human brain cells for hire. These blobs, about the size of a ...

Approach that uses cell’s own strategy of liquid-liquid phase separation protects synthetic modifications from being washed away by the tide of cell growth.

image: In new research, Alex Green, an assistant professor at ASU's Biodesign Institute and School of Molecular Sciences, demonstrates how living cells can be induced to carry out computations in the ...

Genetic engineers can design and assemble sophisticated gene circuits to program cells with new functions, but important signaling molecules can become diluted as these cells grow and divide, causing ...

Like modern-day high performance machines, cells are constantly monitoring signals in their environment in order to “decide” on a course of action such as growth or movement. The signals are ...

Cells in nature have to respond to environmental stimuli with a complex repertoire of responses. In effect, they make computations that require processing that is both analog, like adjusting to a ...

Encapsulating molecular components in artificial membranes offers more flexibility in designing circuits, report researchers. Synthetic biology allows scientists to design genetic circuits that can be ...

Looking at some anecdotal stories as well as some reasonably valid survey data, it seems that STEM-related subjects are getting serious interest from students at all age levels; STEM stands for ...