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New research paper that dropped TODAY reveals scientist just simulated a complete living cell for the first time ever. According to the original tweet, the paper (Luthey-Schulten et al., Cell 2026, doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…), used JCVI-Syn3A — a synthetic minimal bacterium with fewer than 500 genes. A 3D+time simulation of the full 105-minute cell cycle: DNA replication, protein translation, metabolism, division. Every gene, protein, RNA, and chemical reaction tracked through physical space. It took years to build. Multiple GPUs. Six days of compute time per run. And this is the simplest possible cell. With BIOLLM and DOOM and the fruit fly AI project sending, this falls right in line with that meta and is the next step to mixing Biology with AI. https://x.com/roundtablespace/status/2031214712294137981?s=46