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 ...

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 ...