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2002-11-21, 02:22 PM
I saw this on CNN this morning and was wondering how long it will be before something like this starts eating people just like in the moives :D
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/11/21/science.cell.reut/index.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The pioneer scientist who helped crack the human genome and a Nobel laureate were expected to announce on Thursday plans to create a new life form in a laboratory dish in an experiment that raises ethical and safety questions, according to a published report.
Gene scientists Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith hope to create a single-celled, partially man-made organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life in a project funded by a $3 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department, The Washington Post reported in its Thursday editions.
If the experiment works, the paper said, the microscopic man-made cell would begin feeding and dividing to create a population of cells unlike any previously known to exist.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/11/21/science.cell.reut/index.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The pioneer scientist who helped crack the human genome and a Nobel laureate were expected to announce on Thursday plans to create a new life form in a laboratory dish in an experiment that raises ethical and safety questions, according to a published report.
Gene scientists Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith hope to create a single-celled, partially man-made organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life in a project funded by a $3 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department, The Washington Post reported in its Thursday editions.
If the experiment works, the paper said, the microscopic man-made cell would begin feeding and dividing to create a population of cells unlike any previously known to exist.