Scientists stripped a cell down to its most essential genes in order to find out what makes life...alive. What they found was more bizarre than they could have imagined.
This is the first episode of our new three-part series, Life from Scratch.
Guests: <a href="https://cbs.umn.edu/directory/kate-adamala">Kate Adamala</a>, associate professor at the University of Minnesota; <a href="https://www.jcvi.org/about/john-glass">John Glass</a>, leader of the JCVI Synthetic Biology Group.

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