Move over, instant noodles. The dinner of the future might be a cell-cultured chicken cutlet, grown from scratch in a meat-making machine that sits on your kitchen counter. At least, that’s the dream ...

In recent years, mini–brain organoids have been used in the lab to model a variety of diseases, from Alzheimer’s to COVID-19. With no standard process for creating these organoids, some more ...

If humans are going to transition away from eating animals, we’ll need to make the alternatives a lot tastier for the countless among us who will still have meat on their brains. While the plant-based ...

BERKELEY, CALIF. — On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San Francisco Bay, a young man answers the door at a low concrete building. "I'm Matt Krisiloff. Nice to meet you," says ...

Today, more than 3,400 life science and biotech companies call California home. But in one of the state’s most densely populated regions, some science-focused startups struggle more with finding ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Conception's chief scientific officer, Pablo Hurtado, examines very early primordial germ cells under a microscope in a company lab in Berkeley, California. (Laura Morton for NPR) BERKELEY, CALIF. — ...