For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...

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

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, ...

The bones of John Gillies were discovered in a remote area near Sweetwater Gap in Fremont County, Wyoming last year ...

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

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

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

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

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of control over the genetic software that powers living cells — and could reshape ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely ...