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Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics

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What I Can Not Create, I Do Not Understand?

I find that you actually say a lot of things about your work when I've heard you speak about it that surprised me. It's so clear that your work does have bearing on helping us sort of form the constraints within which we can think about questions of the origin of life. Synthetic cells are depending on what glasses you put on there either a very practical utilitarian bioreactors or they're little soap bubbles because that's what they are. And their goal is to make them alive, at least not currently. We can evolve them beyond what natural current life can evolve.

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