One of the most prolific scientists intent on creating synthetic life is Dr. J. Craig Venter.
The man's actually got a whole
institute named after him. Earlier this year, the Science section of wired.com reported on findings published in the magazine
Science regarding the creation of the "
first man-made genome" by Venter and colleagues. Essentially, yeast was used to "stitch together four long strands of DNA into the genome of a bacterium". This research, though, isn't focused so much on the origin of life but rather on how humans can control the output of synthetic organisms to their own advantage. Think indentured bacteria spewing forth biofuels.
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