Scientists at the biotechnology company New Dawn Bio are planting ideas to cultivate wood in the lab to save the forests.

What may be the world’s first piece of lab-grown wood isn’t quite big enough to qualify as a woodchip – it’s more like a splinter. But the tiny fragment could be a big step towards reducing the number ...

With deforestation and natural disasters decimating timber stands, lab-grown options offer hope for the future of building. MIT researchers can customize properties of plant materials to tweak them ...