The SpudCell: Could some ‘blobs’ in a dish spark the ‘Sputnik’ moment for synthetic life?
Built from lifeless chemicals, SpudCell can complete a full life cycle in the lab. (AI generated image) A quivering blob in a dish might not sound like a scientific breakthrough.But when that blob can eat, grow, copy its genetic material and split into daughter cells, the story changes dramatically.That is what researchers at the University…
