Pursuing Synthetic Life, Dazzled by Reality


Pursuing Synthetic Life, Dazzled by Reality -- Natalie Angier  -- New York Times  -- February 5, 2008
Genetic Engineering

Scientists who seek to imitate living cells say they can't help but be perpetually dazzled by the genuine articles, their flexibility, their versatility, their childlike grandiosity. No matter what outrageous or fattening things we may ask our synthetic cells to do, scientists say, it's nothing compared with what cells already have done of their own accord, usually in the format of bacteria.

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