Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they have built thefirst synthetic cell made entirely from non-living chemical ...

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...

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

Nanoparticles are widely used in medicine to deliver drugs, genes or imaging agents to specific parts of the body. Once a ...

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 ...

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

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

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...