Sorry, Tacit, this Venter story does not cut it. He only made a "synthetic chromosome"; Khorana got the Nobel prize for a synthetic gene many years ago. He just wanted to put it into a bacterial cell and "create a new species" in the sensationalist journalist lingo. This is not the same as making a synthetic cell. Venter has been notorious for ambitious announcements. Contrary to popular belief, and his and Clinton's assertions, the human genome has not been fully sequenced yet.
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