A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Every year, bacteria kill more than a million people worldwide through infections that no longer respond to antibiotics. In ...

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

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...