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

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in transcribing DNA into RNA, and ribosomes, which bring up the rear translating ...

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

Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts ...

Massachusetts' deadline to prosecute rape cases is among the strictest in the nation. But Gov. Maura Healey pledged to sign ...

Jaipur: A day after eight people were killed when a private sleeper bus rammed the rear of a multi-axle trailer on the ...

All living organisms are known to inherit genes, DNA sequences that contain instructions for producing specific proteins and ...

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

While these are not artificial life forms created entirely from scratch, the work demonstrates an unprecedented level of control over the genetic software that powers living cells — and could reshape ...

The reason lies in that old mantra and the types of leaders it has brought to the head of Iowa’s major sports programs. While we’ve seen a flurry of successful coaches in both football and men’s ...

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

Over the past decade, researchers at WashU Medicine have established that a molecule called SARM1 is a central trigger in the loss of axons, the vital wiring of the nervous system. Axon loss is ...