Manufacturing Life
January 24, 2008 · Print This Article
We are getting very close on some very, very profound technologies. We are now constructing DNA from its constituent chemicals. Another great story here on Time.
On the basis of earlier experiments, the researchers believe the new, full-length loop would spontaneously “boot up” inside a cell, just as a downloaded operating system can awaken a computer — a potentially historic event that would amount to the creation of the first truly artificial life form.
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