Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

Spudcell built by university of minnesota scientists using non-living chemical parts, it can feed, grow, copy dna, divide & ...

Synthetic biologist Kate Adamal and her team at the University of Minnesota published their research into the lab-created ‘SpudCell’ in a significant step towards building life from scratch. Science ...

It has taken more than a decade, but scientists have finally reached a major step in the goal to create synthetic life in the lab. According to a new study led by a team from Macquarie University in ...

J. Craig Venter is being compared to Galileo, Darwin and Einstein — at the same time he's denounced for trying to "play God." In the 1990's, he beat a team of international scientists in deciphering ...

Re-creating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University ...

In the quest to create better options for couples facing infertility, scientists have been racing to create eggs and sperm in a laboratory dish. A study published Tuesday in Nature Communications from ...

Scientists at the University of Minnesota say they have built a synthetic cell that can feed, grow, copy its DNA and divide.