Having just published Craig Venter and company’s work describing the creation of a synthetic cells, the journal Nature asked eight very different academics what they thought the new scientific breakthrough will lead to. The scientists, in the published editorial, included physicists, philosophers, geneticists, and other specialists, and they provide a variety of angles to look at the new reality of creating artificial life.
Read here: Life after the synthetic cell…
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Thoughts on Future of Synthetic Biology
May 24th, 2010 
Medgadget Editors Society