Scientists have created a cell from scratch and believe they can engineer it, which would be a medical phenomenon.
Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...
The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...
In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...
This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...
Scientists from the University of Minnesota say they have created the first-ever synthetic cell built entirely from scratch, ...
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 ...
What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...