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Artificial life was just a phrase twenty years ago.
This article is a little old but I didn't have my journal script in place then. Still, it's interesting and it's early in the morning (a little insomnia) so I decided to point to it.
Basically biologists and bio-engineers are getting to the point where they'll be able to build a virus entirely from scratch. And they are already thinking about what it will take to build artificial bacteria from scratch.
Posted by Pace Arko on June 11, 2001 5:51 AM