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

The remains of a Revolutionary War soldier were identified as a young man from Maryland just before America's 250th ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Created from 150 components, including lipids, ribosomes, enzymes, and DNA, in the lab. At the core of the design are 36 ...

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 ...