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Synthetic SpudCell, built from chemicals alone, grew, divided, and evolved naturally - a milestone in creating programmable ...

A particle detected at the South Pole was born in a galaxy that churned out stars when the Universe was young.

David Baker’s research team at the Institute for Protein Design has unveiled a new technique for sequestering membrane ...

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