A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...
A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and ...
While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living ...
Scientists developed SpudCell, the first synthetic cell to complete a full cell life cycle using only non-living chemical ...
Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria. The ...
The researchers, led by chemistry professor Zan Luthey-Schulten at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, present their findings in the journal Cell. In two videos, researchers describe the work ...