| Scientists to attempt to create life in lab |
[Nov. 21st, 2002|07:58 am]
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/837988.asp?0cv=CB10
CRAIG VENTER, the gene scientist with a history of pulling off unlikely successes, and Hamilton O. Smith, a Nobel laureate, are behind the plan. Their intent is to create a single-celled, partially man-made organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life. If the experiment works, the microscopic man-made cell will begin feeding and dividing to create a population of cells unlike any previously known to exist. |
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