Matter: Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/synthetic-genome-bacteria.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
May 15, 2019 at 08:32PM

In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature.