Bojan Tunguz called building a ribosome from scratch bottom-up's hardest feat
@tunguz @BenjaminDEKR That is top down, this is bottom up
@BenjaminDEKR Craig Venter and his team have been doing this stuff since 2010:
https://www.jcvi.org/research/first-minimal-synthetic-bacterial-cell
Users find bottom-up synthetic cell methods more impressive than top-down approaches because of their own past undergraduate research in the area.
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@iScienceLuvr @BenjaminDEKR I'd be super impressed if they could actually build a functioning ribosome from scratch.
@tunguz @BenjaminDEKR Personally I find this more impressive, but maybe that's cuz I used to do similar research in undergrad
@tunguz @BenjaminDEKR Personally I find this more impressive, but maybe that's cuz I used to do similar research in undergrad