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Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life's biggest mystery

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to SpudCell, the most sophisticated attempt at creating an artificial life form yet

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SpudCell, the first synthetic cell system built from non-living components to complete a full cell cycle

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What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet

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Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science

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Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be dire for marine life

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in our cells all along?

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Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’

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Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) swimming past a reef covered with Coral sea fans including (Melithaea sp.) and (Pseudopterogorgia sp.), Soft corals (Dendronephthya sp), (Chironephthya sp.) and (Scleronephthya sp.) and Branching cup corals (Tubastraea micranthus). Many different sponges and tunicates are also seen, as are many coral reef fishes, including Anthias and Damselfish, Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean

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The last-ditch plan to save coral reefs from utter destruction

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Mirror life: Scientists clash over threat of lab-engineered bacteria

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Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

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Can we harness quantum effects to create a new kind of healthcare?

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

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The Selfish Gene at 50: Why Dawkins’s evolution classic still holds up

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to teach us in today’s genetic age

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Intoxicating and astonishing: Why 'The Selfish Gene' almost never was

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First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life

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The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter

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Coral reefs on a remote archipelago shrugged off a massive heatwave

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