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Scientists have created “the first synthetic species” after 15 years of research costing $40 million dollars
It’s a bacteria designed on a computer that “gets its genetic instructions from a synthetic chromosome made by man, not nature, and it's alive. It's alive and self-replicating. It means it can indefinitely grow and make copies of itself.”
“Venter believes this is the first baby step in a biological revolution, one in which it will be possible to custom design and reprogram bacteria — DNA is the software of life”
This work is considered a foundational milestone in synthetic biology, allegedly proving life could be engineered from scratch