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Synthetic SpudCell, built from chemicals alone, grew, divided, and evolved naturally - a milestone in creating programmable ...

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Scientists have built a synthetic cell from scratch in a world-first breakthrough that paves the way for creating entirely ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...