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

While many of life's mysteries remain unsolved, every biologist can describe the basic processes performed by a living organism, including energy use, reproduction, growth and development. While these ...

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

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

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the ...

What if the mechanical properties of a cell could be programmed like the components of a machine? Researchers at the ...

Their bodies and their genomes were built in the lab from scratch, each molecule specified precisely. According to John Glass ...

For the immune system to effectively combat pathogens, antibody responses must be precisely controlled. So-called follicular ...

Two research teams at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have developed a pioneering technique in Spain to characterize the proteome of individual cardiomyocytes ...

The cells lining skin capillaries are constantly sending each other messages—tiny pulses of calcium that help regulate blood flow, sense physical forces and keep vessel walls intact. Scientists have ...