For over a decade, scientists have made extraordinary progress on the long-held dream of fabricating an entire cell from nonliving molecules and materials. Such synthetic (or "engineered") cells ...

Researchers have harnessed synthetic biology to engineer chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that precisely target and destroy cancer. However, these powerful cells can also attack healthy tissues ...

Schematic of synthetic protocells: Upon activation with a light pulse, synthetic cell organelles release substance A. The substance enters the receiver protocell and its synthetic organelle ...

For the first time, a research team has succeeded in emulating natural cell communication using synthetic cells. A team of researchers led by Professor Cornelia Palivan from the University of ...

Just by engineering it, you are faced with certain problems that you didn’t realize when you were studying the system top-down. —Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology In the future, synthetic ...

In two recently published papers, scientists successfully recreated the mitochondria (in a simple form) and biochemical nutrient transport throughout a synthetic cell. While these are only two of ...

Researchers have identified a form of molecular motion that has not previously been observed. When what are known as "guest molecules"—molecules that are accommodated within a host molecule—penetrate ...

Scientists have created “synthetic” mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad’s sperm or a mom’s egg or womb. The lab-created embryos mirror a natural mouse embryo up to 8 ½ days after ...