SpudCell is exciting scientists because it appears to bring several features of life together in one system. The researchers describe it as capable of feeding, growth, genome replication, genetically ...

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In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, University of Minnesota researchers unveiled SpudCell, a synthetic construct ...

A new study establishes an experimentally validated basis for predicting excitonic properties via dielectric screening.

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they have built thefirst synthetic cell made entirely from non-living chemical ...

SpudCell is a synthetic cell made by scientists at the University of Minnesota. It’s a pared-down version of a living cell structure So is it alive?

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...