First new artificial life form created


	First new artificial life form created

Mohir

10-7-2007 11:53 AM

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dna, life, biology, artifical life, genes

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10-7-2007 2:29 PM

jstates1

I'd say a patent reform has been in the making for nearly a century...

10-8-2007 4:44 AM

syncopath

happy birth-day ....

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