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

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

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

I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that ...

The cells made in Kate Adamala’s lab at the University of Minnesota are, in her own words, “wimpy” and “helpless”. They have ...

Synthetic biologist Kate Adamala said the discovery is a ‘holy grail’ in engineering biology because engineered cells could ...