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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8440)	2/7/2012 5:05:15 PM
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From your article Even while praising the accomplishment -- "biomolecular engineering of the highest order," declared David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz -- many specialists say the work hasn't yet crossed the line of truly creating new life from scratch. It's partially synthetic, some said, because Venter's team had to stick the manmade genetic code inside a living cell from a related species. That cell was more than just a container; it also contained its own cytoplasm -- the liquid part. In other words, the synthetic part was "running on the 'hardware' of the modern cell," University of Southern Denmark physics professor Steen Rasmussen wrote in the journal Nature, which on Thursday released essays of both praise and caution from eight leaders in the field. Read more: foxnews.com

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