http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...8/nlife128.xml
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Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacteria into another.
In a development that has triggered unease and excitement in equal measure, scientists took the whole genetic makeup - or genome - of a bacterial cell and transplanted it into a closely related species.
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I think this is cool since I think that the biological engineering of this century will be like the mechanical engineering of the last.