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Complex synthetic cells bring scientists closer to artificial cellular life

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Can you make a cell, the building block of life, from scratch? This is a question that researchers have been pondering for years now. A team has handcrafted a single cell with seven different components of naturally occurring cells. And they've done it using bubbles known as coasivate that are made from polamers. It could offer some interesting opportunities to understand how life works full stop.

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