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

An artist’s rendering of a black hole like the one in the center of our galaxy. While the black disk in the center is the ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...

Arriving at a disguised Department of Agriculture station in the Nevada desert, the scientific team takes their first ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...