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Manuel Porcar
Head of the Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology Group at the University of Valencia (I2SysBio) and founder of the company DARWIN
This is a truly spectacular breakthrough. It is not exactly an artificial cell, but rather a cell-like system with a very small genome and basic metabolic capabilities. However, the “cell” requires an external supply of many components, including ribosomes, and does not yet reproduce consistently. It will be very interesting to see if future versions of this development are more independent and can pass on their genome to their offspring more effectively.
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