The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, ...
What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...
Nanoparticles are widely used in medicine to deliver drugs, genes or imaging agents to specific parts of the body. Once a ...
The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...
Synthetic SpudCell, built from chemicals alone, grew, divided, and evolved naturally - a milestone in creating programmable ...
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 ...