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Synthesizing life on the planet (Ep 94)

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Is It Enough to Arrange All the Parts Perfectly?

In 2010, people said what we, the scientific community, some said we made a synthetic cell. In other words, is it enough to arrange all the parts or does there have to be some kickstart moment? And if you can't create this disequilibrium, what you may have is a thing that looks like a living cell but is dead. I think that's a real possibility.

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