Life From A Test Tube? The Real Promise Of Synthetic Biology

Image: Matt Collins

From Scientific American:

Scientists are closing in on the ability to make life from scratch, with potential consequences both good and bad.

I have seen the future, and it is now.

Those words came to mind again as I recently listened to Craig Venter, one of those leading the new areas of synthetic genomics and synthetic biology. Every time I hear a talk on this subject, it seems a new threshold in the artificial manipulation and, ultimately, creation of life has been passed.

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