We often discuss cybernetic, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and hybrids of them, but what truly is synthetic life? And what is it like?

Researchers at the University of Bristol have made a breakthrough in the development of "life-like" synthetic materials which ...

Scientists have finally created synthetic life in a lab by constructing a synthetic yeast for the first time in history.

Previous studies used larger colloid particles, but by using smaller particles, the researchers could experiment in three ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created.

Synthetic cells that look just like natural cells but are chemically reversed could outcompete other living organisms − with ...

After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

“There is nothing occult or supernatural in the processes of life, and eventually we will unravel its secret. Protoplasm is nothing but a chemical compound. I see no reason why some day we shall ...

For years, scientists have sought to understand how a collection of chemicals that are not themselves alive — in the case of humans, inanimate organic molecules — are able to work together to ...

While the concept of creating synthetic life from nothing is still firmly in the science fiction category, synthetic genomes are now reality. Researchers—led by synthetic biologist Hugh Goold of ...