Basics: Pursuing Synthetic Life, Dazzled by Reality
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The most profound insights to emerge from the pursuit of synthetic life just may be about real life.
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US scientists say they have taken a step towards creating synthetic life in the laboratory.
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Active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes.
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DNA&#39;s ability to self-assemble into predetermined patterns has been exploited to create synthetic versatile scaffolding that can direct the assembly of miniscule computer circuits.
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Researchers are trying to turn the simulated realities of science-fiction movies into the armchair realities of everyday life
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Researchers at Rockefeller University make small synthetic vesicles that resemble a crude kind of biological cell.
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You were expecting poetry, perhaps? The secret messages hidden in J. Craig Venterâs synthetic bacterial genome have now been revealed. They are Dr. Venterâs name, and that of his research institute and co-workers.
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German scientists are using a new computational method to analyze DNA taken from microorganisms that make up more than a third of the Earth's biomass.
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New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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An international team of scientists has found life on a Norwegian island.  No surprises there, but the successful field test of a collection of life-detection instruments may be a stepping stone for future endeavors to sniff out life on Mars.
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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Neuroscientists use coral and jellyfish DNA to create colorful arrays of neuronal connections in mouse brains.
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Teaching online isn't unusual, but professors are taking advantage of Linden Lab's 3-D metaverse to shape meeting spaces to their needs and provide an added dimension to learning. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Wired Science reveals the secret messages encoded into the world's first manmade bacterial genome by the scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute.
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Custom-made microbes could produce drugs, eat pollution, generate fuel -- or create an unpredictable environmental nightmare. As the field advances, some watchdogs call for increased regulation.
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Science & environment: Craig Venter announces the creation of a synthetic chromosome, one of the task's final hurdles