{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The New Biology","title":"SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030 | Kate Adamala","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/bedf3029\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5150,"description":"Chemists at the University of Minnesota, led by Kate Adamala, recently built a synthetic cell that eats, grows, and divides; purely by putting together molecules in the laboratory. Their creation, called SpudCell, can only divide for five generations. What will it take to make it grow for longer? And why bother making a synthetic cell in the first place?\nSubscribe to Asimov Press: https://press.asimov.com\nChapters: \n00:00  SpudCell is not alive\n05:16  How SpudCell was made\n13:14  How to make a continuously replicating cell\n29:48  Finding new mechanisms for cell division\n40:38  What is the point of SpudCell?\n54:51  Mirror life, and whether SpudCell uniquely enables it\n1:14:38  Biotic, China, and 2050","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Cdlp_4Y2x0oxnTGtoVdklrgCMQQ-ARclU1VI-dDVZCI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYTRi/NTg1Yzc3YmRiZjg1/ZjNmYmNkNjAyYjFl/NjllMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}