Through a complex chemical process, scientists have been able to develop versatile, synthetic 'cyborg' cells in the lab.
That non-replication part is important. For artificial cells to be useful, they need to be carefully controlled, and that can't happen as easily if they're propagating in the same way that actual cells do.
The researchers behind the new development think these cyborgs could have a huge variety of applications, from improving treatments for diseases like"The cyborg cells are programmable, do not divide, preserve essential cellular activities, and gain nonnative abilities,"Cell engineering is currently based on two key approaches: genetically remodeling existing cells to give them new functions and building synthetic cells from scratch .
These cyborg cells are the result of a new, third strategy. The researchers took bacterial cells as their foundation and added elements from an artificial polymer.
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