It's not Frankenstein, But It's a Start

Craig Venter says that in a few months, his team will have created the first genuine artificial life form within a few months. As you may recall, Venter's team did the first whole genome transplant a few years back, which involved taking the genome of one species of bacteria and putting it into the genome-free cell of another closely related species. The new hybrid species was able to reboot with the new genome. According to The Times: read more

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