{"id":240111,"date":"2026-07-01T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:13:05","slug":"for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-a-cell-built-from-scratch-grows-and-divides.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before \u2014 proof of concept that it\u2019s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before \u2014 proof of concept that it\u2019s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}