“It’s just a microscopic water droplet surrounded by a fatty membrane and stuffed with chemicals and snippets of DNA encoding a mere 36 genes. But it’s also arguably the closest researchers have come to building a living cell from scratch.”🧪 My story in @science.org on a fascinating preprint:
Lab-created ‘SpudCell’ marks ‘stunning’ step toward building life from scratchA synthetic cell can now grow and divide—but it’s still far from alivewww.science.org