Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Have you seen the headlines about SpudCell? It's the newest breakthrough in synthetic biology, a synthetic cell with some interesting properties, including cell division. Is it alive? What can we learn from it? Let's go over some basic information, and then talk to Kate Adamala, the researcher behind SpudCell to get some answers!

Check out Kate's preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735724v1.full.pdf
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