{"id":243110,"date":"2026-08-24T01:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/lab-created-spudcell-marks-stunning-step-toward-building-life-from-scratch"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:07:44","slug":"lab-created-spudcell-marks-stunning-step-toward-building-life-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/lab-created-spudcell-marks-stunning-step-toward-building-life-from-scratch","title":{"rendered":"Lab-created \u2018SpudCell\u2019 marks \u2018stunning\u2019 step toward building life from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-created-spudcell-marks-stunning-step-toward-building-life-from-scratch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have long dreamed of creating cells in the lab, to both understand life\u2019s fundamentals and produce cells that can be better engineered to make certain compounds. But most have set their sights lower and tried to replicate individual cell functions, such as feeding or growth. Putting multiple functions together has been extremely challenging, because each tends to work best under a different set of conditions, for instance a certain amount of magnesium or a specific level of acidity. \u201cBeing able to incorporate all of these modules together in a synthetic cell is the feat that the field has been waiting for,\u201d says Job Boekhoven, a systems chemist at the Technical University of Munich, although he stresses that the new paper\u2019s claims need to be peer reviewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have long dreamed of creating cells in the lab, to both understand life\u2019s fundamentals and produce cells that can be better engineered to make certain compounds. But most have set their sights lower and tried to replicate individual cell functions, such as feeding or growth. Putting multiple functions together has been extremely challenging, because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243110","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}