Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior closer to engineering. Some techniques were so difficult to explain that ...

For the first time, researchers have simulated the full workings of a bacterial cell as it copies its DNA and divides into two. The experiment could help researchers to understand how the interactions ...

A team at the University of Minnesota announced recently that it synthesized simple cells that feed, grow, and reproduce — the latest advance in the rapidly growing field of synthetic cells, which was ...