Scientists Create Synthetic Cells
Origin of Carrot Top finally within reach.
“Although the ultimate goal of creating artificial life is still far off — and might remain so permanently — the achievement described online in the journal Science is a landmark in the effort to control living organisms by manipulating their genes.
“We think these are the first synthetic cells that are self-replicating and whose genetic heritage started in the computer. That changes conceptually how I think about life,” said the leader of the project, J. Craig Venter, whose self-named research institute has laboratories and offices in Rockville and San Diego.”