Artificial life

Nearly there

Posted: Monday, Feb 04, 2008 at 0010 hrs IST
Updated: Monday, Feb 04, 2008 at 0027 hrs IST

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: wholly synthetic genome into reproductive life, he will not only have made a great technological leap forward, he will also have erased one of the last mythic distinctions in science—that between living and non-living matter. Watching that veil drop will have been worth the wait.

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