Discover SpudCell, the synthetic cell created from lifeless chemicals that eats, grows, and reproduces, bringing us closer to ...

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 ...

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...

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 ...

University of Minnesota researchers created SpudCell, the first bottom-up synthetic cell that feeds, grows, replicates DNA and divides.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota claim to have created the first synthetic cell. They are calling it SpudCell, ...

Scientists claim they have developed world’s first man-made cell that can eat and grow - It was built from non-living ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota say they've made the first synthetic cell that can complete a life cycle, a major ...

In a study published in Science, USC researchers paired a biological discovery with an engineering feat to create more ...

Scientists have created the world’s first man-made cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. Called SpudCell, it is the work of ...

A tiny bubble of lipids, enzymes and DNA has done something biologists have chased for years: it carried out a full cycle of ...

Synthetic cell SpudCell, the first built from non-living components by University of Minnesota synthetic biologists Kate ...