Sorry, Tacit, this Venter story does not cut it. He only made a "synthetic chromosome", which Khorana got the Nobel prize for 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.
Ironically we have religious fanatics on one hand... and now "scientists" trying to play god on the other.
