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

The new synthetic cell grows and divides on its own.

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

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

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 ...

When a human cell prepares to split into two daughter cells, it must first construct a tiny internal machine called the ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

About 100 cells divide every second in our body. A key protein in cell division is a protein kinase termed Plk1, because it activates other proteins involved in this process. Plk1 is also ...

There is variability in when and how cells divide during the development of embryos. While researchers traditionally believed this variability was an obstacle that needed to be regulated, a group now ...