U.S. researchers say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time. Built with lab-made DNA, it can feed, grow, and multiply.

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides-20260701/

People own individual animals, or even large groups of them, but no one claims ownership of an entire species ~ will that change?

If you’ve genetically engineered it yourself - does that mean you own all individual creatures created with that DNA?

Think this is an arcane concern? I bet the people who’ll want to make money out of this tech won’t be thinking the same way.

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

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

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

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We still have researchers…with funding even? Huh…

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Wow you took over three years to prove this was correct. A turtle could finish this race before you can save yourselves over a trillion dollars.

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What are you trying to say? Why are you so angry?

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They mad the only cells they own are kept in a sock.

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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!!!

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