My thoughts: Only when a functional cell can be artificially made, with its simplest components ( amino acids, nucleotides, pentose sugars, fatty acids, monosaccharides, ions, etc.), one can pretty conclusively establish the cell theory. read more
Cell theory is the biological theory which describes cells as the fundamental unit of all life. It was developed in the mid 1600s. read more
In biology, cell theory is the historic scientific theory, now universally accepted, that living organisms are made up of cells, that they are the basic structural/organizational unit of all organisms, and that all cells come from pre-existing cells. read more
Theories are called theories because that's what they are. Scientific method provides empirical evidence that supports that theory. But there is still a lot that we don't know about the cell. read more