For decades, Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have dominated industrial bioproduction. Yet Gram-positive bacteria—particularly actinomycetes ...

To coincide with this year's Reith Lectures, entitled the Triumph of Technology, You and Yours asked what has been the most significant technological innovation since 1800. From the hundreds of ...

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Scientists build a synthetic cell that grows, divides and replicates DNA using only non-living chemical components.

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Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human cells infected with bacteria that model tuberculosis—and ...

Five years ago, scientists watched in wonder as synthetic bacteria grew and split into daughter cells. The bacteria’s extremely stripped-down genome still supported its entire life cycle. It was a ...