[ExI] Holy Schlamoley! Venter's team creates synthetic life!

[John Clark]

It's significant because for the first time humans have complete control over every single nucleotide of an organism's DNA. I don't count viruses as organisms.

And welcome back Zero Powers!

   John K Clark
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On May 20, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> On 5/20/2010 5:34 PM, Zero Powers wrote:
> 
>> Last night, in a dramatic
>> announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God,
> 
> Actually he *was* only playing god, because his team just copied an existing genome (other than a few tweaks and unintentional mutations). Weakly godlike at best (as Charlie Stross might put it).

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