Scientists Just Created Something Like Artificial Life—and They’re Releasing the Blueprints to Everyone
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New Scientist Jul 02
What is 'SpudCell'? Arguably the greatest bioengineering feat yet: A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 ...
newscientist.com/article/2532689-what-is-spudcell-arguably-the-greatest-bioengineering-feat-yet/
New Scientist Jul 01
Have scientists really made a living cell from scratch? Not quite: A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing ...
newscientist.com/article/2532689-have-scientists-really-made-a-living-cell-from-scratch-not-quite/
SpudCell: Scientists Made a Cell With Most of the Hallmarks of Life. Here’s What to Know.
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dlvr.it Jul 01
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time: SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive ...
theregister.com/science/2026/07/01/an-artificial-cell-with-a-full-lifecycle-has-been-created-for-the-first-time/5265296
University of Minnesota scientists made a cell with most of the hallmarks of life. Here’s what to know.
startribune.com/university-of-minnesota-scientists-made-a-cell-with-most-of-the-hallmarks-of-life-heres-what-to-know/601863726
biotic.org Jul 01
Biotic | SpudCell: SpudCell and Biotic — announcement and media factsheet.
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SpudCell: Scientists Made a Cell With Most of the Hallmarks of Life. Here’s What to Know.
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The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab: Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life's origins or provide specialized functions ...
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This synthetic cell is a ‘meaningful’ step towards building life from scratch: SpudCell can grow, replicate and divide, opening the door to a new era of ...
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No, the ‘first synthetic life’ isn’t alive: The lab-made cells open a window into what’s possible for synthetic life, researchers say.
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Did scientists just create synthetic life?: The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing
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First fully synthetic cell with complete life cycle created: Researchers have created the first synthetic cell that undergoes growth, division, and selection ...
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Science Friday Jul 06
An artificial cell eats, grows, and reproduces. Is it alive?: Researchers have engineered an artificial cell, hoping to build a customizable chassis for chemical ...
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SpudCell: These lab-built cells could be the beginning of life.: Can a living cell be artificially created? A US biologist claims: yes. But her creation is ...
zeit.de/2026/30/spudcell-kuenstliche-zelle-wachstum-teilung-forschung
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livescience Jul 07
Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish
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Scientists take another step towards lab-made life: What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently
economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/01/scientists-take-another-step-towards-lab-made-life
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Scientists build synthetic cell that grows, divides and passes DNA to offspring: Scientists build a synthetic cell that grows, divides and replicates DNA using ...
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New Scientist Jul 02
Synthetic biology may finally be ready to solve life's biggest mystery: What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are ...
newscientist.com/article/2532794-synthetic-biology-may-finally-be-ready-to-solve-lifes-biggest-mystery/
Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division: It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials.
arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/artificial-cell-manages-a-few-rounds-of-cell-division/
Scientists create cell in a lab, say it can 'feed, grow and replicate': Cell birth is a biological process, but scientists have managed to create one ...
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sciencealert.com Jul 02
For The First Time, Scientists Say They've Built a Synthetic Cell From Scratch: Scientists from the University of Minnesota say they have created the first-ever ...
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Scientists have built a cell from the ground up: What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently
economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/01/scientists-have-built-a-cell-from-the-ground-up
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Synthetic cell offers first glimpse of life that is ‘built not born’: Researchers used non-living raw materials to create SpudCell, which can feed, grow ...
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World’s first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
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