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Chemists create first envelopes for artificial life

Chemists create first envelopes for artificial life Created by MG1 on Jan 26, 2012

Through a rather simple chemical reaction, chemists at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University have created self-assembling cell membranes, these pre-cursors to artificially creating life. Though it might not sit well with the god-fearing citizens of Earth, these chemists, Neal Devaraj and Itay Budin, have published a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society which details their important step in creating an artificial cell. Should they succeed, they’ll be the first (or the second if you count the big bang and its good friends here on the planet, to create a living organism from non-living molecules. »read more

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