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welcome back to the Nature podcast.

This week we're looking at building cells from the bottom up.

And we'll be hearing from a breakthrough prize winner.

I'm Charmoney Bundell.

And I'm Benjamin Thompson.

First up this week, reporter Jeff Marsh has been learning about creating synthetic cells.

Biologists have been tweaking cells for decades, knocking out, adding editing genes, adding compounds, removing compounds,

essentially taking a top-down approach,

starting with the living system in all its complexity and tinkering with it to figure out how it all works. Biology is complicated, so it makes sense that scientists have taken this top-down

approach, and it's served as well, helping us understand the inner workings of cells and create

groundbreaking therapies. But more recently, research groups around the world have begun to take a

bottom-up approach. Starting from scratch, their aim is to rebuild living systems with a precise

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