The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to ...

Scientists have created a cell from scratch and believe they can engineer it, which would be a medical phenomenon.

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

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