synthetic life

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7203186.stm So trust them to create a sexually transmitted disease to ravage the planet! ;)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/science/29cells.html?_r=1&oref=slogin reposted from http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ This week's Nature has a very fine editorial on a subject that's probably going to be more troubling to the religious than evolution, in a few years. We're on the verge of...