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

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found how plant cells respond to stress. If their energy ...

Learn how SpudCell, a synthetic cell built from chemical parts, can grow, divide, copy its DNA, and bring life-like behavior ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth and Forschungszentrum Jülich have demonstrated that specific light-sensitive ...

University of Queensland researchers have developed a drug that activates a hard-to-target immune receptor—a breakthrough ...

Much like camera settings—filters, flashes and focus—affect what we notice in a final photo, the way scientists measure ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they have built thefirst synthetic cell made entirely from non-living chemical ...

As central female reproductive organs, the ovaries produce fertilizable eggs and generate the sex hormones estrogen and ...

Scientists have engineered 'SpudCell,' a lab-made system from chemicals that mimics life's core functions like growth and ...

Unlike traditional proteins, its short structure allows it to act as an epigenetic modulator, potentially influencing gene ...

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...

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