What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...
Getting it over the finish line was a labor of love—and now, more than five years after her death, the lab of former Sloan ...
The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...
In a study published in Science, USC researchers paired a biological discovery with an engineering feat to create more ...
What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...
Female fertility depends on the successful growth and maturation of eggs (oocytes) within ovarian follicles. Within these ...
In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...
Scientists have built a synthetic cell from nonliving chemical components that can feed, grow, and reproduce similarly to a ...
A super-resolution image of SpudCell’s liposomes with an encapsulated genome and active protein expression. Photograph: Orion Venero/Adamala Lab A tiny blob in a dish has pushed one of biology’s ...
Scientists build a synthetic cell that grows, divides and replicates DNA using only non-living chemical components.
The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it ...
For the immune system to effectively combat pathogens, antibody responses must be precisely controlled. So-called follicular ...