Has life been created in the lab ?
Scientist Craig Venter creates life for first time in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god'
They manufactured a new chromosome from artificial DNA in a test tube, then transferred it into an empty cell and watched it multiply – the very definition of being alive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/7745868/Scientist-Craig-Venter-creates-life-for-first-time-in-laboratory-sparking-debate-about-playing-god.html
That's evidently misleading. They would have had to start from scratch, provide and mix the building blocks, be able to reproduce the conditions on early earth, and wait and see, if self organisation would happen.
Scientist Craig Venter creates life for first time in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god'
They manufactured a new chromosome from artificial DNA in a test tube, then transferred it into an empty cell and watched it multiply – the very definition of being alive.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/7745868/Scientist-Craig-Venter-creates-life-for-first-time-in-laboratory-sparking-debate-about-playing-god.html
That's evidently misleading. They would have had to start from scratch, provide and mix the building blocks, be able to reproduce the conditions on early earth, and wait and see, if self organisation would happen.
