Here is an interesting article on what some scientists are doing in their quest to create 'something that meets the criteria for life - has a metabolism, replicates and evolves'. Their plans are to use the synthetic forms to clean up oil spills and scrub the ozone. It raises some interesting questions as to what life is. They are taking different genomes and putting them together in a cell they have emptied to see it if will perform the functions listed above. I'm not a biologist, so some of the descriptions may be slightly off, but this is the gist of the story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7041353.stm
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More interesting stuff, Danny.
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