Just didn't think it would happen so soon!
(from TheSun)
A SCIENTIST has created life in a pioneering laboratory experiment in which a bug was "brought back from the dead".
It was last night hailed as a breakthrough that opens the door to exciting new technological advances. But opponents of genetic engineering condemned the experiment as dangerous Frankenstein-style tampering with nature. Maverick US biologist Dr Craig Venter first extracted the genes from a bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum. Then he grew strands of artificial DNA and planted them in the dead bacterium, which revived and began to multiply. Dr Venter said: "This is the first synthetic cell that's been made. It is an important step." READ MORE | Watch The Story
