Creating artificial systems that mimic the functioning of cells is one of the goals of what is known as synthetic biology.

Researchers have successfully built the simplest artificial cell ever that can navigate using chemicals, much like living cells do. Chemotaxis is the essential navigation system cells use to find ...

Researchers have created the simplest artificial cell ever—just a membrane, an enzyme, and a mission. In a breakthrough that strips life down to its most basic rules, scientists at the Institute for ...

Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by complex biochemistry. But can self-reproduction exist in a biochemistry-free ...

Cyanobacteria use light to survive, and these organisms are regulated by circadian rhythms–the 24-hour biological cycle that is found in many animals, and which helps control fundamental processes ...

Artificial cells using riboswitch-gene fusion in liposomes produce fluorescent proteins when detecting specific targets. Multiple cell types can simultaneously detect different targets.RetryClaude can ...

You don’t want the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes inside your cells — it can make you seriously ill. Now, researchers at Aarhus University have used its unique mode of movement as inspiration to ...

Not long ago, solving the crystal structure of a protein required an entire PhD. Growing crystals, collecting X-ray diffraction data, and interpreting electron density maps often took years of ...

A team of UC Merced researchers has shown that tiny artificial cells can accurately keep time, mimicking the daily rhythms found in living organisms. Their findings shed light on how biological clocks ...

Treating type 1 diabetes and some cases of type 2 diabetes has long required painful and frequent insulin injections or a mechanical insulin pump for insulin infusion. But researchers from the ...