Scientists in the US say they have taken a major step towards producing life from scratch in the laboratory.
Dr Craig Venter says in the Science journal that his team successfully transplanted an entire genome from one bacterium cell to another.
He says he hopes eventually to use the technique to create designer microbes, which could produce artificial fuel or help clean up toxic waste.
It is astonishing how fast we are coming to understand and even control biology.
How much longer before we can do away with disease and prolong life indefinitely? And then what?
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