Motor proteins power everything from muscle contraction to bacterial swimming. While replicating their chemically fuelled ...

For billions of years, evolution was driven by random mutations. A new breakthrough puts control over DNA, life’s blueprint, ...

Ultimate success,” says the synthetic biologist, would be that “all the atoms we’re moving in our economy are moved with ...

For years, personalized medicine has been shaping the future of healthcare in some of the world’s leading research centers. Today, that future is no longer confined to global scientific hubs. It is ...

Mice have notoriously blurry vision, and scientists long assumed they relied on smell and whiskers to navigate their world.

The Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at IISc Bengaluru is bringing researchers, entrepreneurs and advanced ...

SpudCell marks a milestone for synthetic biology, but it is not fully alive. It will, however, help scientists answer key ...

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Biology asks, how does life work? Meta-biology or Philosophy of Biology asks, what is life, fundamentally? The meta of every science asks the bigger questions, it judges the fundamental assumptions ...

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 fo ...

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