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scarmig 33 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: For first time, a cell built from scratch grows an...

Back then, it sounded like making right-handed life was decades away. But with this work, couldn't you just as easily make this kind of synthetic cell right-handed?

burnte 32 days ago [–]

AFAIK she was saying we were years not decades away which is what made her nervous. We were very close and the risks hadn't been fully explored.

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