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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."

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  1. Not a cell by sandertje · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Without their creation being able to replicate, it is essentially not a cell. All they've done now is having made a compartmentalized catalyst.