A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and ...

Few areas of medicine generate as much fascination, hope, hype, and confusion as genetics. Just over two decades ago, ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

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

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

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

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

Popular science fiction is no stranger to escape-pod scenarios, typically featuring characters who narrowly avoid their ...

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 ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

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

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