Episode

SpudCells: Have Scientists Built Life From Scratch?

Podcast: Modem Futura
Published: Jul 21, 2026
Duration seconds: 1914
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Summary

Sean and Andrew dig into SpudCell — a lab-built synthetic cell that feeds, grows, and divides — and the deceptively simple question it forces: where's the line between something that was built and something that's alive?