While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

University of Minnesota researchers created SpudCell, the first bottom-up synthetic cell that feeds, grows, replicates DNA and divides.

Pioneering research has developed a new way of creating carbohydrate-based medicines that could ultimately replace costly ...

Benchtop NMR puts nuclear magnetic resonance on the lab bench, supporting teaching, QC, reaction monitoring, and materials ...

IIT Madras launches AI education in Hindi via SWAYAM Plus, offering 6 free courses for beginners and reaching 50,000+ ...

Scientists have engineered 'SpudCell,' a lab-made system from chemicals that mimics life's core functions like growth and division. While not fully alive due to reliance on external components, this ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s ...

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...

University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...