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Synthetic Life

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Synthetic Life
The creation of autonomously dividing organisms—bacteria from DNA created in the laboratory


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New research tools will bring a boom in biotechnology that will unlock the enormous potential of using synthetic life to cure disease and develop environmentally friendly fuels, scientists say.
Although the creation of a synthetic life form is a mainly a practice of biologists, the results are of keen interest to any scientist interested in understanding living systems and their origins.
Critics worry that it will only be a matter of time before a synthetic life form is released and runs amok or a disaster at a nanotechnology plant creates a major health crisis.
 
 
 
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