Posts made in June, 2008

Synthetic Life “Breakthrough” Just Demonstrates Design

Posted on Jun 4, 2008 in Blog | 142 comments

Dr. Cameron Alexander of the University of Nottingham recently used polymers to build capsules that imitate bacterial cell walls. Bacteria can interact with these capsules, absorbing chemicals from them. In the May 29, 2008, article ?Synthetic Copycat of Living Cell Underway: Life, But Not as We Know It?,? Science News quoted Dr. Alexander as saying, ?These are very primitive steps in the lab, and still a long way from a true synthetic counterpart to a biological cell, but we have demonstrated that we can transfer certain molecules from inside the synthetic capsule to the bacteria when they...