Scientists visually tracked an RNA intron jumping from a predator to its prey, revealing insights into gene transfer across ...

The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing ...

For centuries, people have argued about what separates something that's alive from something that's simply chemistry.

The new antibiotic screening system proposed by the authors of the study proved to be sensitive to both fidaxomicin and ...

A quivering blob in a dish might not sound like a scientific breakthrough. But when that blob can eat, grow, copy its genetic ...

Discover SpudCell, the synthetic cell created from lifeless chemicals that eats, grows, and reproduces, bringing us closer to ...

Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have—in collaboration with colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...

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

Created from 150 components, including lipids, ribosomes, enzymes, and DNA, in the lab. At the core of the design are 36 ...

A tiny blob in a dish has pushed one of biology’s oldest questions into new territory: When does inanimate chemistry become ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have engineered "SpudCell," a lab-made entity from lifeless chemicals that mimics ...