Tiny “living machines” made of frog cells can replicate themselves, making copies that can then go on to do the same. This newly described form of renewal offers insights into how to design biological ...

Why build a machine out of plastic or metal when you can build it out of DNA? This question may set off ethical alarm bells, but for the first time, scientists are reporting they’ve done just that. In ...

In her new book, “The Age of Living Machines,” Susan Hockfield argues that we have entered a new era of scientific innovation in America. As a child, Susan Hockfield took apart anything she got her ...

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The prevailing narrative is that tech is shaping the future of life. The results from our most advanced labs say the opposite: life, in all its complexity, efficacy and variety, is shaping the future ...

Researchers are no longer just simulating brains in silicon, they are wiring living human neurons into machines and asking them to compute. Tiny clusters of brain cells, grown from stem cells and ...

Scientists used computer algorithms to "evolve" an organism that's made of 100% frog DNA — but it isn't a frog. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Editor's Note: This article was first published at ScienceNordic. Scientists are increasingly interested in the prospect of solving a range of fundamental problems facing our civilisation by designing ...