Tiny, quivering spheres designed to feed and multiply raise prospect of artificial organisms to make drugs, food and fuel ...

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...

Scientists in Minnesota say they've built something from scratch that's not alive—but behaves like it was. Synthetic ...

From simple chemicals to a cell-like system that grows and reproduces, researchers have crossed a major milestone. The ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists developed a synthetic cell-like system that uses DNA nanopores to coordinate molecular transport and complex reactions.

Scientists have created SpudCell, a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living materials that can grow, copy DNA and ...

From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.

Named SpudCell, it's described as a "wimpy organism" that basically does nothing other than eat and occasionally reproduce.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have created a synthetic cell-like structure that can control the movement of molecules and organize complex chemical reactions using programmable DNA ...