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World-First Working Eukaryotic Cell Made From Plastic

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-prefer-real-cells dept.

Zothecula writes "Previously, chemists have managed to create artificial cell walls and developed synthetic DNA to produce self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cells. Now, for the first time, researchers have used polymers to produce an artificial eukaryotic cell capable of undertaking multiple chemical reactions through working organelles."

2 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not a cell by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Blame the university's press department, as always. There's quite a jump in hyperbole between the Ange and Nature Chem's comments, versus the press release. Why do journalists even read university press releases any more? You know they're going to be misleading.

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    No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
  2. Re:Not a cell by reboot246 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hey, I'm a very neat bag of water! Well, mostly water.