For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides | EP #88
Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 88. The coffee is strong, the servers are humming, and Hacker News is somehow both science class and basement radio today. First up... for the first time, researchers have a cell built from scratch that grows and divides. That is the kind of sentence where you look at your cereal and wonder if it is looking back. Synthetic biology is inching from, hey, neat molecule, into, buddy, we made a tiny factory with opinions about mitosis. It is huge for understanding what life actually needs, and also a reminder that nature's build…
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