Thursday, 10 April 2014

Build-a-Bug; not Custom Creation

The following article was originally written in December 2011.

IN SUMMER 2010, researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute published a paper on the creation of “synthetic life”. The popular media reported about this synthetic life form for all the wrong reasons, giving it all kinds of inglorious names such as  “the second genesis”, “humans play God”. However, apart from causing alarm in the papers, this development should be considered closer to “Build-a-Bear for bacteria” than “Frankenstein's monster”...

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