Scientists could be close to creating the first artificial life. They already placed the genetic makeup from one species of bacteria into another, closely related species, which grew and multiplied as if it were the first species.
The team that carried out the first “species transplant” says it plans within months to do the same thing with a synthetic genome made from scratch in the laboratory.
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