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

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

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

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