With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

In a feat aimed at understanding how cells move and creating new ways to shuttle drugs through the body, scientists say they have built a minimal synthetic cell that follows an external chemical cue ...

Unlike the rigid skeletons within our bodies, the skeletons within individual cells—cytoskeletons—are changeable, even fluid. And when these cytoskeletons reorganize themselves, they do more than ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown type of molecular motion inside DNA-based droplets: instead of spreading randomly, guest molecules advance in an organized wave. This surprising ...

A recent study published in Nature Chemistry introduces an artificial cytoskeleton designed to provide mechanical support and ...

A large international team has created a strain of yeast in which half of the 16 chromosomes are synthetic ones that have been redesigned and created from scratch, in a major step towards creating the ...

A research team reports that advances in protein design—especially when combined with artificial intelligence—are rapidly ...

Using a microscopy image and graphic rendering, the artists illustrate a minimal synthetic cell that can sense a directional chemical cue and self-organize in response. In a feat aimed at ...