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Comment by svnt | original | For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides
[−]svnt · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:06 UTC · link
It's because really what they are doing is using chemistry to split a cell. Adamala is a chemist.

They have just bolted an unsynchronized physicochemical process onto the boundary of the cell. It doesn't coordinate with anything to do with the cell. Both cells don't get half of the dna. They built stochastic chemical scissors that only work if you make the cell less cell-like.