Artificial cell

Artificial cell

An "artificial cell" is a minimal cell from artificial parts and is an emerging technology. Until recently, most attempts have generally created only a package that can do many things a cell can do, such as transcribe and translate proteins and generate ATP but not yet a fully operational cell.

The first artificial cell was created by Thomas Chang [Chang T M; Poznansky M J "Journal of biomedical materials research" (1968), "2"(2), 187-99.] at McGill University. An artificial cell wall and some of the other parts are made of polymersomes. the hemoglobin is placed in the center.

External links

* [http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/29may_polymersomes.htm Nasa scheme to make artificial blood cells]

Further reading

* [http://publishing.royalsociety.org/artificial-cell Dedicated issue of "Philosophical Transactions B" on The Artificial Cell. Some articles are freely available.]

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