#TIL all life (on Earth) is based on a single surviving organism (& only one possible platform to encode it made of GTCA molecules) Researchers are working to create synthetic minimal cells #synells? Because we still don’t know what some dna codes for… Their wonder? “What if we could climb out of the gravity well of Earth’s single surviving experiment in life?” -Drew Endy #HTGAA class this week in #boston at #MIT taught by guest lecturer K. Adamala #wow https://cbs.umn.edu/directory/kate-adamala