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

A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast cell, which usually reproduces asexually, choose to mate with a very ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

Scientists have created the world’s first man-made cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. Called SpudCell, it is the work of ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from nonliving chemical components that can feed, grow, and reproduce similarly to a ...

The problem of how life evolved on Earth has intrigued the minds of many great scientists for centuries. Now, according to an exciting study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The airwaves are crackling this week with news of the first synthetic cell, constructed and cultured by researchers from the ...