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Synthetic Cells That Eat Grow and Divide | Duluth News
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have built synthetic cells—nicknamed SpudCells for their potato-like appearance—that can eat, grow, reproduce, and even compete. Though not yet fully alive, they exhibit core life traits and mark a major leap in understanding how life might have begun. The team is launching a nonprofit to scale up the research with global collaboration and hundreds of millions in funding, aiming to engineer cells that could revolutionize medicine and environmental cleanup. By building from scratch instead of reverse-engineering natural cells, they’ve overcome key…
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