Creating Artificial Life

Scientists are working on creating organisms with designer genomes — and someday, we might end up with bacteria manufacturing our jet fuel.

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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5987/52.full
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http://genome.cshlp.org/content/14/2/221.long