The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast ...

"We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology." The post Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and ...

The airwaves are crackling this week with news of the first synthetic cell, constructed and cultured by researchers from the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Scientists have created the world’s first man-made cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. Called SpudCell, it is the work of ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

Named SpudCell, it's described as a "wimpy organism" that basically does nothing other than eat and occasionally reproduce.

The problem of how life evolved on Earth has intrigued the minds of many great scientists for centuries. Now, according to an exciting study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from nonliving chemical components that can feed, grow, and reproduce similarly to a ...