A company in Poland has created a humanoid robot with life-like synthetic muscles and translucent skin.
The remarkable achievement involved creating synthetic human embryos from stem cells in the laboratory.
Embryo-like structures with a brain, intestines and a beating heart have been created by scientists in a lab.
The synthetic fish were able to swim around autonomously using the contractions of the muscle tissue.
The live, lab-made microbe, which has a fully synthetic DNA code, is the first of its kind ever created.
A new type of 3D printer is able to materialize whole objects at once using light and a synthetic resin.
Scientists have developed a new type of synthetic material with some rather unique stretching properties.
For the first time ever, researchers have succeeded in creating healthy organisms with synthetic DNA.
A $100,000 prize is being offered to anyone who can successfully preserve a fully functional human brain.
Health authorities have revealed that synthetic blood could soon be transfused in to human test subjects.
Scientists have succeeded in creating synthetic enzymes using artificial genetic material.
The first ever 'semi-synthetic' micro-organism is very different from all other life on Earth.
Genome scientist J. Craig Venter believes that we will soon be able to design and 'print' organisms.