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.
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.
A 26-year-old Australian man is to have his paralysed hand removed and replaced with a synthetic one.
Synthetic blood made from cow plasma brings Australian woman back from the brink of death.
Photosynthetic algae have been found inside the cells of a vertebrate for the first time.
Scientists have created a synthetic protein that enables growth of living cells.
Scientists are researching the possibility of using synthetic life forms to create food and fuel.
Scientists in Britain have produced red blood cells from spare IVF embryos for the first time.
The scientist who recently announced the creation of the world's first synthetic life has been accused of playing God.
Scientists in the US have announced the development of the world's first synthetic living cell.
A new type of synthetic skin for robots has been developed by the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.