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The promise of synthetic cells

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"engineered" cells could transform our understanding of the rules of life.

They could also be used to manipulate living organisms and achieve astounding breakthroughs in medicine and science.

"We're closer than we've ever been before," says National Institute of Standards and Technology physicist Elizabeth A. Strychalski .

When they exit your body, they might sense the temperature difference, triggering a stress response in the cells that causes them to die.

Another thing we need is robust screening measures to ensure that people who are ordering synthetic snippets of DNA code or synthetic cells aren't ordering ones that could be harmful.

Researchers are trying to control the function of these systems and do it safely.

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