Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.

More like this

The diagnosis we would all shudder to get. The below image is actually a joke (reprinted from an issue of Esquire in July of 2000)
Last week I appeared o
And is James Watson in the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease?
In February I wrote an article in Science about what Craig Venter's up to these days.