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Posted on Nov 17, 2003, 2 p.m.
By Bill Freeman
The Economist reports on the first successful attempt to create artificial life. although a group of biologists at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, did, indeed, once make something they said was the genome of a polio virus, it was so feeble that it could barely infect a cell and reproduce itself.
The Economist reports on the first successful attempt to create artificial life. although a group of biologists at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, did, indeed, once make something they said was the genome of a polio virus, it was so feeble that it could barely infect a cell and reproduce itself. It also took them years to put together, whereas the IBEA genome is fully functional and was the work of a fortnight. The Stony Brook effort, in other words, was a biological version...
Source: http://www.transhumanism.com/news_comments.php?id=1018_0_2_0_C
