Donna Benning, 7, swings as George Hofer and his son Adam, 3, walk to breakfast Aug. 17, 2006. The Spokane Hutterian Brethren colony has 87 members from 17 families that share four last names: Gross, ...

The assembly of artificial cell-like structures into interconnected networks with collective functions can improve our understanding of artificial multicellularity and is a step towards the ...