Synthetic Copycat Of Living Cell Underway: Life, But Not As We Know It?

Researchers have taken some important first steps to creating a synthetic copycat of a living cell. Scientists have used polymers -- long-chain molecules -- to construct capsule-like structures that have properties mimicking the surfaces of a real cell. They show how in the laboratory they have been able to encourage the capsules to 'talk' to natural bacteria cells and transfer molecular information.

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