A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life reconstructions ever created. Using computer technology, scientists have ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship-but ...

Scientists have pushed back LUCA’s origin by hundreds of millions of years.

Lab–grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before. The virus, dubbed Evo–Φ2147, was created by scientists from scratch using new ...

Dr Adrian Woolfson is pioneering technologies which he says will lead to a ‘Second Genesis’, where humans can create life like God. He meets ...