To model bacterial life, Thornburg and his colleagues turned to one of its simplest examples: a bacterial cell with a ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) ...

Life’s fundamental structure is the cell, and so the main things that a cell does — processing biomolecules, growing, replicating its genetic material and producing a new body — are considered ...

A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...