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

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

The family of Henrietta Lacks has settled a lawsuit over the use of her endlessly reproducing cells, which changed modern medicine and saved millions of lives. Lacks’ surviving family members ...

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 University of Minnesota, under the auspices of biotechnology nonprofit ...

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, a pioneer in the field who works at the J. Craig Venter Institute in San ...

Researchers have created SpudCells, synthetic cells built entirely from scratch, capable of growth and reproduction, marking ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated that it is possible to create early germ cells from preserved ...