DNA News - Anaheim

BBC, Anaheim, California; Scientists may soon have the ability to create completely new living organisms from the raw chemical building blocks of life. This was the prediction of a leading geneticist speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement (AAAS), taking place in Anaheim in southern California. Dr Craig Venter said the creation of man-made microbes from a cocktail of molecules could reveal how life first evolved on Earth, but acknowledged such an experiment raised a multitude of ethical issues.