For First Time, a Cell Built from Scratch Grows and Divides

came here to post this lol, nice! I love it when somebody has already beat me to posting a fascinating article!

Michael Lynch (opens a new tab), an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University who was also not involved in the study, agreed. It is “a synthetic biology tour de force,” he said. However, he also cautioned against over-hyping the cell since it’s not yet self-sustaining.

Once the synthetic cells were created, her students and others started calling them Adamala cells — a moniker she hated. She insisted that they name the cells after anything else, jokingly suggesting potatoes. So her students started calling them spudcells. “I’m Polish, I’m mostly made of potatoes, so that’s fine with me,” Adamala said.

And Thus They Were Known Throughout The Land Forever After As Spudcells!!!

This news is the preamble to so many science-fiction horror stories, and the scariest thing they can mention is intellectual property laws.

Every futurology post feels like part of a news report montage at the beginning of a post-apocalyptic movie.

We still have researchers…with funding even? Huh…