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University of Minnesota scientists create synthetic cells that can divide and multiply on their own

This Synthetic Cell Grows, Copies Its DNA, and Produces Offspring—But It Isn’t Alive

SpudCell is a big step toward synthetic biology’s dream of building life from scratch. Synthetic biologists have long dreamed of constructing artificial cells from the bottom up. Researchers have now…

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