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Artificial cells made to reproduce thanks to DNA

Add the right kind of chemical cocktail to fatty water and it self-assembles into reproducing cells

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Synthetic yeast will evolve on command

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Life-like cells are made of metal

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Life-like cells are made of metal

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Anti-dengue mosquitoes released in Australia

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Anti-dengue mosquitoes released in Australia

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Plants and fungi share fair-trade underground market

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Plants and fungi share fair-trade underground market

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Bacterial 'wires' an electronic dream

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Bacterial 'wires' an electronic dream

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Multicellular yeast shrug off freeloading mutants

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Superbugs may be here to stay

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Superbugs may be here to stay

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Grappling hooks help bacteria slingshot forward

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Grappling hooks help bacteria slingshot forward

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Not so simple: Bacteria with backbone

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Not so simple: Bacteria with backbone

The textbook bacterium has a thick wall and not much else to give it structure – but it turns out that protein skeletons and compartments are common

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Not so simple: Gulping bugs with the nuclear option

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Not so simple: The good of the many bacteria

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Bean sprouts to blame for 'decade-old' E. coli

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Beyond antibiotics: A new way to fight superbugs

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