A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are the first to directly utilize orbital currents without the need ...

In a study published in Science, USC researchers paired a biological discovery with an engineering feat to create more ...

Researchers from the Molecular Physics and Physical Chemistry departments of the Fritz Haber Institute have shown how two ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Solving complex optimization problems is central to many modern technologies, from logistics and financial modeling to chip ...

David Baker’s research team at the Institute for Protein Design has unveiled a new technique for sequestering membrane ...