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A single cell is more advanced technology that anything we've developed so far.



Do we have the ability to make single cellular lifeforms using similar building blocks?


Not anywhere near. I’m just an interested observer, but the nearest is ‘synthetic life’ which takes existing cells and removes/reworks/replaces the existing dna.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00293-2

Even the cell membrane is fantastically complex. Keeping out the bad stuff and letting the good stuff in. While keeping the good stuff in and letting the bad stuff out.




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