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Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish

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Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish
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Scientists say they have built a "synthetic cell" that can eat, grow and divide in a way that's remarkably similar to living cells. The research, released to the preprint database bioRxiv July 2, has not been peer-reviewed yet. It introduces SpudCell, a new type of artificial cell, and marks a striking step toward creating living cells from scratch. But for study co-author Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologist at the University of Minnesota, that's far from the most interesting part of the work. "

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