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

COMPLEXITY

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The Importance of Synthetic Cells in Biomedicine

Synthetic cells are kind of a middle ground between two dumb and two smart. To dumb is just a simple molecule that you inject into a patient and then it go does something that you can control once you inject it because just a molecule. Then on the completely different end of the spectrum you have those exceedingly smart drugs, for example car T cells,. They're your own cells that are taken out of your body we combine that and to back. And yeah they can't serve but they also getting trouble because they get to enthusiastic and give you leukemia.

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