"SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030" | Kate Adamala

About a month ago, chemists made a synthetic cell capable of eating, growing, and dividing for at least five generations. They called it SpudCell, and the lead author, Kate Adamala of the University of Minnesota, thinks it might be able to reproduce perpetually by 2030; a feat that, she argues, would finally make SpudCell “alive.”I flew to Minnesota and interviewed Adamala for about three hours. First, I wanted to understand the bottlenecks with SpudCell. What engineering changes will they make ...