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‘Beautiful blobs’: can scientists build life from scratch?

The Guardian's Science Weekly by The Guardian

Jul 2, 202600:16:53Religion & Spirituality

Researchers claim they are closer to creating life from nothing after building tiny, quivering blobs that use lab-made DNA to feed, grow and multiply in a dish. To find out how significant this step is, and where scienti...

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‘Beautiful blobs’: can scientists build life from scratch? is an episode from The Guardian's Science Weekly by The Guardian. Researchers claim they are closer to creating life from nothing after building tiny, quivering blobs that use lab-m...

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Published Jul 2, 2026, 00:16:53 long, audio available.