If you didn’t read the article, don’t get too worked up - it’s a cell raised in a bath of ready-made cell organelles, which it can absorb and use, basically.
It’s still impressive, given what the state of the art was, but don’t expect it growing on a damp spot near you anytime soon.
A CELL DIVIDES AND MULTIPLIES
A STRANGE MUTATION OVERRIDES
AND CARBON-COPIES INTO FOOOOUUUURHOMUNCULUS HOORAY
sweet, autonomous hacking AI, this, and other man-made horrors beyond my comprehension!
If I don’t get Ghost in the Shell body mods and SAO-style complete sensory immersion video games before I’m dead, this whole fucking world can burn for all I care.
Zombie apocalypse for Christmas then.