Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve created artificial microbes in the past, but in each of those cases, researchers were working with viruses or bacteria.

Baker's yeast, an important model for designer biology, is already used to make beer, biofuel and medicine, but once equipped with a full set of synthetic and changeable chromosomes like those ...

Scientists have come one step closer to creating a synthetic yeast. For more than 15 years, researchers have worked tirelessly to build a complex cell with an entire genome from the ground up. And now ...

Scientists are attempting to create yeast cells, shown above, with fully artificial DNA. An international team of scientists is closing in on its goal of replacing all the genetic material in a yeast ...

The human genetic blueprint is deceptively simple. Our genes are tightly wound into 46 X-shaped structures called chromosomes. Crafted by evolution, they carry DNA and replicate when cells divide, ...

In a major leap toward creating artificial life, scientists have successfully synthesized six chromosomes out of 16 required for a yeast genome. The feat belongs to researchers of the Synthetic Yeast ...

Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once pondered what would happen if the cassette “tape of life” were rewound and played again. Synthetic biologists have tested one aspect of this notion by ...

A research team led by Dr Karen Wing Yee YUEN, Associate Professor from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), revealed the mechanism of artificial chromosome (AC) ...