This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

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

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

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 ...