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UNC-Chapel Hill researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells

UNC-Chapel Hill researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells

Synthetic cells created with programmable peptide-DNA technology that directs peptides, the building blocks of proteins, and repurposed genetic material to work together to form a cytoskeleton, shown in fuscia.

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