The lab-made cell can grow, copy its DNA, and divide but cannot survive independently or be considered fully alive, ...

SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect ...

University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass ...

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

(STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without ...

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 ...

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

When injected into mice with retinal disease, the special retinal blood cells integrated into the damaged tissue to ...

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 ...

Created from 150 components, including lipids, ribosomes, enzymes, and DNA, in the lab. At the core of the design are 36 ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, including neurons, glial cells and the vasculature into a single culture. Grown ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...