Tag Archive for 'Replication'

Cell cycle of synthetic cells with 90-kbp genome, undergoing selection replication. Image credit: Gaut et al., doi: 10.64898/2026.07.01.735724.

Biologists Build Synthetic Cell that Can Feed, Grow, Divide and Evolve

Jul 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists at the University of Minnesota say they have built a synthetic cell — made entirely from non-living chemical components — that can...

Kriegman et al. show that clusters of cells, if freed from a developing organism, can similarly find and combine loose cells into clusters that look and move like they do, and that this ability does not have to be specifically evolved or introduced by genetic manipulation. Image credit: Kriegman et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.2112672118.

Researchers Create Self-Replicating Living Robots

Nov 30, 2021 by News Staff

Professor Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont, and his colleagues from Tufts University and Harvard University’s...