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 ...

One hundred years ago, it was easy to tell when something was a machine. Machines were “hard and clanky, metallic, and pretty heavy,” as developmental biologist Michael Levin tells Inverse. But lately ...

A new system makes getting an MRI–sometimes a dangerous experience for newborns in critical care–as easy as taking candy from a baby. Getting an MRI isn’t a pleasant experience. You enter a cold, ...

Michael Levin, a biologist at Tufts University, spends his days doing things such as coaxing flatworms to grow two heads or helping frogs regenerate lost legs. It may not seem like it, he says, but ...

What happens when you take cells from frog embryos and grow them into new organisms that were "evolved" by algorithms? You get something that researchers are calling the world's first "living machine.