No, it is not life. But it is an interesting conglomeration that pulls together a bunch of previous research into a neat bundle, and makes one of the main features of a living cell sort of work when it is spoon-fed some complicated key ingredients. From the article:
“I wasn’t allowing myself to believe it for a while,” she said. “It was like, ‘Holy shit, did I actually make a dividing cell?’ … At some point, you’ve been checking enough that [you think], ‘OK, now it’s real.’”
and:
“The modern cell is like a Dreamliner,” Adamala said, referring to the Boeing 787 airplane. “We built a Wright flyer… the first bike frame with wings that flies 100 feet.”
Pretty amazing.
And no, it's not going to get away and take over the world. Real life would rip it to shreds and chow down on the innards within milliseconds.
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