Building Synthetic CellsâFrom the Technology Infrastructure to Cellular Entities.
ACS Synth Biol
; 13(4): 974-997, 2024 04 19.
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| ID: mdl-38530077
ABSTRACT
The de novo construction of a living organism is a compelling vision. Despite the astonishing technologies developed to modify living cells, building a functioning cell "from scratch" has yet to be accomplished. The pursuit of this goal alone hasâand willâyield scientific insights affecting fields as diverse as cell biology, biotechnology, medicine, and astrobiology. Multiple approaches have aimed to create biochemical systems manifesting common characteristics of life, such as compartmentalization, metabolism, and replication and the derived features, evolution, responsiveness to stimuli, and directed movement. Significant achievements in synthesizing each of these criteria have been made, individually and in limited combinations. Here, we review these efforts, distinguish different approaches, and highlight bottlenecks in the current research. We look ahead at what work remains to be accomplished and propose a "roadmap" with key milestones to achieve the vision of building cells from molecular parts.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Biotechnology
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Synthetic Biology
Language:
En
Journal:
ACS Synth Biol
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos