Cees Dekker

“[Its] approach uses some ingenious engineering tricks as shortcuts to achieve complex functions such as growth, but a major challenge remains to create a truly autonomous cell that executes all these functions without external help,”

Cees Dekker · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-06

Dekker said the approach uses engineering shortcuts but creating a truly autonomous cell remains a major challenge.

“The description of the results leaves me with substantial technical questions regarding the nature and the robustness of the findings,”

Cees Dekker · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-06

Dekker, who was not involved in the work, raised technical questions about the robustness of the findings.

“If these findings are solid, that great media attention is definitely warranted; if peer review would, however, reveal weaknesses or issues, all the current media reporting is premature,”

Cees Dekker · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-06

Dekker argued that media reporting is premature until the findings pass peer review.