Reacción a "Reactions: Yeast with over half of its genome synthetic developed for the first time"

It seems to me to be a significant advance in the application of advanced synthetic engineering techniques that will help us better understand the relationship between the genome and the behavior of cells. It would be important to clarify that this cannot be considered an example of generating synthetic life, as was said after the publication of the first article in this series of experiments, published 13 years ago [about a bacteria] (and cited in the article current as reference 3).

As can be seen in that article, it says in the title that a cell had been "created", and that led me to misinterpret the (great) work that was done, since in reality no cell was created (just as happens in this article).

What has been done is to synthesize an important part of the genome (a merit in itself) and insert it into already existing cells. It is important to note that, so far, we have not been able to generate cells from scratch. All the cells that exist on Earth come from a first primordial cell that appeared almost four billion years ago, which has divided an enormous number of times to give rise to each and every one of the cells of all the organisms that exist. in the planet. We can create artificial genomes, but we cannot yet create artificial life, since the unit of life (the cell) is still out of our reach.