Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect ...

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

Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

When a human cell prepares to split into two daughter cells, it must first construct a tiny internal machine called the ...

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

A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and ...

DNA, proteins, ribosomes, and other components were mixed in a solution, and when a fatty component was added, they ...