{"id":56306,"date":"2026-07-09T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-inside-science-are-we-one-step-closer-to-creating-life-in-a-lab\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:28:31","slug":"bbc-inside-science-are-we-one-step-closer-to-creating-life-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/bbc-inside-science-are-we-one-step-closer-to-creating-life-in-a-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Inside Science – Are we one step closer to creating life in a lab?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Synthetic biologist Kate Adamal and her team at the University of Minnesota published their research into the lab-created \u2018SpudCell\u2019 in a significant step towards building life from scratch. Science journalist, Kai Kupferschmidt, joins us to discuss the implications of this research, as well as the controversies.<\/p>\n

Nature reporter Lizzie Gibney tells us how science has helped us better understand the route that the famous Carthaginian general, Hannibal \u2013 and not forgetting his elephants \u2013 took across the Alps.<\/p>\n

Plus, in this week\u2019s scout of science stories behind the \u2018beautiful game\u2019 we learn of research carried out at a Tokyo football match, monitoring seismic waves made by the vigorous celebrations of thousands of fans.<\/p>\n

Presenter: Tom Whipple
\nProducer: Kate White, Alex Mansfield, Katie Tomsett, Tabitha Taylor Buck
\nEditor: Martin Smith
\nProduction Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth<\/p>\n

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Available for 34 days Synthetic biologist Kate Adamal and her team at the University of Minnesota published their research into the lab-created \u2018SpudCell\u2019 in a significant step towards building life from scratch. Science journalist, Kai Kupferschmidt, joins us to discuss the implications of this research, as well as the controversies. Nature reporter Lizzie Gibney tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[173,3351,3542,11770,283,9024,2951],"class_list":["post-56306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-bbc","tag-closer","tag-creating","tag-lab","tag-life","tag-science","tag-step"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56308,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56306\/revisions\/56308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}