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The Lineage That Starts in a Notebook

University of Minnesota researchers say their synthetic cell, SpudCell, can grow, divide, and pass traits to offspring. Every cell before it inherited an unbroken record reaching back four billion years. This one has a first line, and a person wrote it.

By Ines HargroveCaptured 2026-07-04T15:05:00ZDesk Science
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