Life 2.0 - Scientists Push the Boundaries of Human Life
A new generation of scientific mavericks is not content to merely tinker with life's genetic code. They want to rewrite it from scratch.
It last happened about 3.6 billion years ago. a tiny living cell emerged from the dust of the Earth. It replicated itself, and its progeny replicated themselves, and so on, with genetic twists and turns down through billions of generations. Today every living organism--every person, plant, animal and microbe--can trace its heritage back to that first cell. Earth's extended family is the only kind of life that we've observed, so far, in the ... Full Story »
Posted by Dale Penn
