Artificial lifeforms
Genesis redux
A new form of life has been created in a laboratory, and the era of synthetic biology is dawning
IN THE end there was no castle, no thunderstorm and definitely no hunchbacked cackling lab assistant. Nevertheless, Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith and their colleagues have done for real what Mary Shelley merely imagined. On May 20th, in the pages of Science, they announced that they had created a living creature.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16163006
Genesis redux
A new form of life has been created in a laboratory, and the era of synthetic biology is dawning
IN THE end there was no castle, no thunderstorm and definitely no hunchbacked cackling lab assistant. Nevertheless, Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith and their colleagues have done for real what Mary Shelley merely imagined. On May 20th, in the pages of Science, they announced that they had created a living creature.
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16163006
Interesting.
