The East Coast campus of the research institute received shipments of freeze-dried or frozen samples of more than 210,000 microbial strains, which scientists plan to mine for potentially useful natural products.

Five independent groups got different results in a drug-response experiment, despite sharing protocols, reagents, and cell lines. The researchers identify technical variables that could be to blame.

The move reflects scientists using more cell lines and organoids in genetic research, although some experts disagree with the decision to scale back the use of animal models.

A near-infrared laser warps a tissue culture surface to mimic natural cellular environments.

Scientists fiddle with formulas to boost the growth of their stem cell cultures.

The embryo, grown in a dish from several types of stem cells, went through gastrulation, a significant stage in development.

Identification of new archaea species elucidates the domain’s unique  biology and sheds light on its relationship to eukaryotes.

Scientists engineered a synthetic, nutrient-rich gel that feeds growing organoids as they mature from human pluripotent stem cells into 3-D bowels.

An analysis of contaminated literature finds that tens of thousands of papers used cell lines of questionable origins—and these were in turn cited by hundreds of thousands of other papers.