Breakthrough Synthetic Cell Has Just Reproduced - But Is It Alive?

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  I think this is the breakthrough of the year so far, Penny.

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  It's a synthetic life form built from the ground up.

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  They've called it spud cell.

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  Spud cell.

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  Spud cell.

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  It's a big breakthrough.

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  How big remains to be seen.

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  But the news here is that an artificial cell has been created using 36 existing genes.

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  And it's partly capable of replicating itself, but it's not a living organism, not yet.

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  No, I think of it like, if you think of a normal living cell as a jet airliner,

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  a modern airliner, this spud cell is like the Wright brothers' first attempt at an airplane made of wood and cotton.

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