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November 16, 2003
Advances in Biotech: Science Fiction is less Fiction Today
USA Today reported on a story that Scientists were able to create a virus that reproduces.
Moments ago this was just a technique which sci-fi writers and screenwriters would use as a story point. ;-)
Now this is also part of our everyday life...the creation of artificial life.
Now that researchers have the ability to create a synthetic genome of a virus, implant it into a cell, and watch the virus become "biologically active," there may be no real limit to where this goes or where this technology ends up.
Posted by jeff on November 16, 2003 07:19 AM | Permalink
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