We could see a mass extinction event, an existential threat to multicellular life as we know it. Effective biocontainment, ...

Life is remarkably diverse. When you look around the world, you can find such astounding differences between each lifeform.

It has taken more than a decade, but scientists have finally reached a major step in the goal to create synthetic life in the lab. According to a new study led by a team from Macquarie University in ...

Scientists have created a bacteria with a genetic code more streamlined – and more meddled with – than any other life on Earth. This bacteria, a synthetic Escherichia coli called Syn57, has been ...

A new synthetic lifeform, often referred to as “mirror life,” has recently emerged as a potential risk to humankind. With its inherent capacity for rapid evolution and adaptation, this life form could ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created. By taking yeast cells and ...

The code of life is simple. Four genetic letters arranged in triplets—called codons—encode amino acids. These are the building blocks of proteins, the machinery that powers life. But the genetic code ...

Man-made molecules that mimic cells but aren’t alive could be used to study illnesses that kill natural life. A University of Minnesota lab wants to use simplified versions of cells — more resilient ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working to make a synthetic life form reported a major step forward Thursday, saying they had created an artificial genome and used it to bring a hollowed-out ...