How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch

Re:How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch by jaequery on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:34AM (#18415113)

So build a lipid membrane, insert some DNA from a bacteria in there, and it will just function? Sounds like they missed explaining how the membrane will extract and execute the instructions from the DNA... which in itself is a huge question mark.

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Re:How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch by aaavl2821 on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:10AM (#18415440)

They mentioned they included some cellular machinery involved in transcription and translation, and were able to show that "cells" produced fluorescent protein in response to an environmental trigger

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Re:How Biologists Are Creating Life-Like Cells from Scratch by nine_k on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:13PM (#18416502)

"Bacteria have no cytophysiology, only chemistry", as someone said.

But of course you'll need some transcription enzymes to make RNA and then proteins, and plenty of raw amino acids floating around.

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