In a development that seems likely to stir a firestorm of controversy, researchers said today they have used genes made in the lab to create a synthetic species of bacteria.
"We're here to announce the first synthetic cell," said J. Craig Venter, PhD, head of the self-named J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md., and famous as leader of one of the teams that decoded the human genome./.../ |
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