U.S. researchers have created the worlds first “synthetic life,” a strain of bacteria created with man-made DNA.”This is the first self-replicating cell weve had on the planet whose parent is a computer,” team leader Craig Venter of the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., told USA TODAYs Dan Vergano. Venter has been a leader in human genome mapping as well as synthetic biology.The breakthrough is “a defining moment in the history of biology and biotechnology,” Mark Bedau, a philosopher at Reed College and editor of the journal Artificial Life, toldScience magazine.
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