What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...
The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...
Scientists at the University of Minnesota Wednesday announced that they created synthetic cells from non-living chemicals ...
Synthetic SpudCell, built from chemicals alone, grew, divided, and evolved naturally - a milestone in creating programmable ...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...
In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...
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 ...
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