Sialic acid is a natural sugar building block found on the surfaces of our cells. It acts as a protective and recognition molecule and plays a central role in the development of the nervous system.

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

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...