Scientists develop synthetic lifeform

[UserName]

Scientists have created an entire bacterial genome with off-the-shelf chemicals....

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=longest-piece-of-dna-yet


I guess this could be referred to as "intelligent design", right?:D

[Smurf-Herder]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080124194415.ngrte3c7&show_article=1

They had an artificially created "evolving" DNA-like molecule containing six gene-building nucleotides - instead of the four found in natural DNA, back in 2004:

Evolving Artificial DNA
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-04t.html

Where are we going with this science?

Biotech firm claims to clone human embryos with skin cells
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8p_JBkVKi8NIo0N8dhbXiAWNKyQ

[KrisW]

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