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    Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form

    In super layman's terms, they haven't created life from scratch, but they have created synthetic life from already existing cells... I think.

    The Internet's Very Own Veronica Belmont
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    Craig Venter Creates Synthetic Life Form

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    Scientists, please help us make sense of this!

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