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Can synthetic cells save the world?

vox.com · 10dShare

Associate professor Kate Adamala has been busy. Her lab at the University of Minnesota takes chemicals and dead, isolated biological parts — like DNA, membranes, ribosomes — and puts them together into “synthetic” cells to see if they will come to life…or at least act alive. This summer, Adamala’s lab had a tremendous breakthrough. They […]

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