What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating an artificial life form yet

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

Researchers have created what they say may count as the first synthetic cell, and have started a public benefit corporation to share the technology with

SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have engineered "SpudCell," a lab-made entity from lifeless chemicals that mimics key life processes like eating, growing, and dividing.…

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating…

Scientists have built a cell from scratch for the first time

Scientists built SpudCell, the first synthetic cell that grows, divides and evolves, entirely from non-living chemicals. They still won't call it alive.