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Brin asked in Science & MathematicsBiology · 1 decade ago

Has anyone (scientist) created a cell in a lab?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I work in a cell culture lab and unless you consider creating a cell creating a cell through cell division, no. Scientists can alter cells so that they're essentially new cells (nothing you'd find in nature, just a existing cell engineered to reproduce into a new cell).

    Since a cell is life, you can't really 'create' it without using cell division/fission/spore formation.

    Source(s): Microbiology major working in a university cell lab
  • 1 decade ago

    A cell is a living entity which can't be created except by another living entity. So if I'm understanding your question correctly, then no it cannot be created in a lab.

  • 1 decade ago

    Not even an organelle. Even if they start out with a cell that has just died, with everything in the right position and the right combination.

  • 1 decade ago

    anyone who says life definitely cannot be created from non living substances are not aware of scientists who are forming the building blocks of life (D.N.A.) from a number of mixtures of organic and inorganic substances.i read about this in discover magazine this year ,i do not know which issue ,but I'm sure they do.its very interesting and more complex than Ive described

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