A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

A team of biochemists at the University of California, San Diego, working with a group of biochemical engineers from the ...

A research team from the University of Basel has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete ...

All known life forms are made up of cells enclosed by lipid membranes that separate and protect the cell’s contents. The ...

Synthetic cells could mimic the first sparks that led to our existence. Several Dutch institutions are working together to ...

The four are the first to receive transplants made from reprogrammed ... none of the recipients had experienced severe side ...

A research team has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete with artificial organelles. For the first time, the researchers have also been able to emulate natural ...

Neuroscientists have discovered brain cells that form multiple coordinate systems to tell us "where we are" in a sequence of behaviors. These cells can play out different sequences of actions, just ...

This is a summary of: Giger, G. H. et al. Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi. Nature 635, 415–422 ...