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 ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

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

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body's most fundamental biological processes—how red blood ...

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

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

A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

The cells made in Kate Adamala’s lab at the University of Minnesota are, in her own words, “wimpy” and “helpless”. They have ...