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

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the things you would have to decide is how to allocate space for different ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...

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

University of Minnesota researchers created a synthetic cell that grows, divides, and evolves, challenging traditional views ...