The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that gut bacteria help regulate the development of the body's ...

The goal of creating synthetic cells is not to replace nature, but to learn more deeply about biology and reengineer it to ...

Popular science fiction is no stranger to escape-pod scenarios, typically featuring characters who narrowly avoid their ...

Groups of bacteria known as biofilms thrive in surfaces all around us. These microscopic clusters are abundant in aquatic ...

Scientists have created a cell from scratch and believe they can engineer it, which would be a medical phenomenon.

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

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota Wednesday announced that they created synthetic cells from non-living chemicals ...

Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely ...

Scientists have created the most advanced synthetic cell yet made in a laboratory. They've dubbed it "Spudcell," echoing Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...