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

In the earliest stages of life, mammalian embryos start as a disorganized cluster of cells. As development progresses, these cells become organized into well-defined shapes and structures. This ...

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From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

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

Embedded in the boundary between the inside and outside of each cell are membrane proteins. They act as first responders by ...

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