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

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

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...

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

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

Synthetic biologist Kate Adamala said the discovery is a ‘holy grail’ in engineering biology because engineered cells could ...