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What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them into entirely new organisms beyond life and death? While it might sound completely out of this world—something you’d expect to see in a science fiction novel—that’s precisely what scientists have done, going so far as to create a “third state” of existence.
This groundbreaking accomplishment is highlighted in a new study review published in the journal Physiology, with the researchers showcasing the methods they used to achieve it. In an essay published in The Conversation, biologists Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov—co-authors of the new review—say that this new “third state” will challenge how all scientists understand cell behavior.
But it isn’t just this new third state beyond life and death that excites so many. See, organisms have long been known to change in ways that we don’t fully understand. As such, it is more impressive that the biobots developed by these scientists have entirely new functions that really set them apart from other organisms.
This groundbreaking accomplishment is highlighted in a new study review published in the journal Physiology, with the researchers showcasing the methods they used to achieve it. In an essay published in The Conversation, biologists Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov—co-authors of the new review—say that this new “third state” will challenge how all scientists understand cell behavior.
But it isn’t just this new third state beyond life and death that excites so many. See, organisms have long been known to change in ways that we don’t fully understand. As such, it is more impressive that the biobots developed by these scientists have entirely new functions that really set them apart from other organisms.
Scientists created organisms in a lab that exist in a 'third state' beyond life and death
Scientists have created a new type of organism that transcends the states of life and death. Here's what we know.
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