Scientists on Brink of Creating Synthetic Life


	Scientists on Brink of Creating Synthetic Life

wildcat

12-9-2008 6:44 AM

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synthetic life, genes, genetics

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12-9-2008 10:14 AM

renerodz

"wet artificial life"...Sea Monkeys!

12-11-2008 6:06 PM

chestnut501

Exactly

Once again, the enormous ego of the scientific community has hit a nerve. They are second only to the media. And that's only because I expect any time now to hear that the alphabet soup networks have made contact with God and he will now talk to us directly through them.

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