The average drug now costs more than US$1 billion to develop and takes more than a decade to reach the market 1. And for every success, there are nine drug candidates that fail clinical trials 2. “In ...
From why it was created to whether it’s alive, here’s what to know about SpudCell, the latest advance in synthetic biology.
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...
From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.