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What Are SpudCells? Know The First-Ever Synthetic Cell Created From Scratch In Lab That Replicates
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"The #Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan." - #BattlestarGalactica
This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.
By Carl Zimmer and Marco Hernandez July 1, 2026
Excerpt: "Now the SpudCells grew, fed and reproduced. As it turned out, the cells even had a rudimentary ability to evolve.
"Dr. Adamala and her colleagues created a mutant version that bound more tightly to the snack-filled bubbles floating around it. To test it, they created a 50-50 mixture of original and mutant #SpudCells.
"The cells competed for five generations for food. Eventually the mutants outnumbered the originals, suggesting that they were outcompeting the originals for food.
" 'That’s the shake-the-ground accomplishment here,' said Dr. Zia. Scientists will be able to put various synthetic cells in competition with one another and rapidly develop more sophisticated ones."