Cells suck: The dirty little secret of synthetic biology
Trying to engineer living things is like working with a computer that does what is is told half the time and half the time runs the programs it wants to run
via sciencenews.org
“If whales and trees can be built from seeds, why can’t submarines and cell phone towers be built that way?”
For one thing, amplifying from a tiny seed to a larger structure is not so simple. And there's also the matter of cells sucking.
