"Scientists Hope to Create New Form of Life"

[Revtim]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20021121_78.html

“Gene scientists Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith hope to create a single-celled, partially man-made organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life in a project funded by a $3 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department, The Washington Post reported in its Thursday editions.”

“Smith and Venter told the Post the lab-dish cells would be rendered incapable of infecting humans, strictly confined and designed to die if they escaped into the environment.”

[garius]

*Originally posted by Revtim *

"Gene scientists Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith hope to create a single-celled, partially man-made organism with the minimum number of genes necessary to sustain life…"

How long before it becomes Conservative Party Leader…

[Eve]

They peppered in God’s lo mein . . .

[CRorex]

Cool huh

[Ethilrist]

I am so reassured that their precautions are exactly the same as those used in Jurassic Park.

[Jonathan_Chance]

Warning: Microbes in mirror may be closer than they appear.

[Sunspace]

So… how long till it crawls out of the test tube and says,“Hi!”?

[photopat]

I say they’ve already done it…and it’s name is Ross Perot.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

I am still hoping for a skunkopotomus.

[dorkusmalorkusmafia]

Now if they could only make a short term virus eating single celled organism to combat viral infections.

[CRorex]

Dorkusmalorkusmafia:

Read out about viruses It won’t work.