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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed what they describe as the world’s ...

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A video of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - containing both a genome and ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instructions can ...

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Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could usher in an era of ...