Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 movie: "Now I know what
it feels like to be God!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEB6s8wH1D8
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/worlds-first-synthetic-cell-complete-life-cycle-could-revolutionize-biological
World’s first synthetic cell with a complete life
cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
July 1, 2026
While many of the mysteries of life remain unsolved,
every biologist can describe the basic processes
performed by a living organism, which include energy
use, reproduction, growth and development. While
these characteristics can be replicated in isolation
in a lab, the idea of a completely synthetic
biological organism has long been relegated to
science fiction.
Associate Professors Kate Adamala and Aaron Engelhart
and their teams at the College of Biological Sciences
have developed the world’s first synthetic cell with
a complete life cycle, built entirely from non-living
chemical components, and described it in a new paper.
The project, called SpudCell, marks a major
breakthrough in biological engineering. In time, it
may provide solutions to some of our most challenging
problems in medicine and engineering.
...
Paper is here
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735724v1.full.pdf
A Chemically Defined Synthetic Cell Capable Of Growth
And Replication
Abstract
Cells are the fundamental unit of life. Yet there is
no natural cell for which all its life-essential
functions are understood. Here we demonstrate a
complete cell cycle for a synthetic cell undergoing
selection, with genome replication, growth, resource
acquisition via feeding, and genetically encoded
division. The cell is encoded via a 90kb genome that
includes functions needed for resource uptake,
transcription, translation, growth, genome replication,
and division. The resulting synthetic cell is
sufficiently encouraging to support routinization of
synthetic cell engineering workflows, and will
ultimately underlie diverse applications across all
of biotechnology.
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