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Dr Craig Venter – one of the world’s most famous and controversial biologists – said his U.S. researchers have overcome one of the last big hurdles to making a synthetic organism

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Reading this actually scared me a little. It’s something I’ve been reading about for years but knowing that we are within months of creating what will become self replicating organisms really shakes me up a little. I’m guessing it’s similar to what you would feel to find out that aliens really existed or if the existence of g-d was truly proven.